Wikipedia is responsible for the dumbing down of educational standards. Furthermore, it’s been taken over by woke, left wing activists so that it is no longer unbiased and, even according to its creator, can no longer be trusted. The problem is that if you want information on virtually any subject, Google will lead you to Wikipedia. It now has a virtual monopoly on the provision of information because people are led to it and blindly trust it as the last word on any topic. It’s anything but the last word.
Initially, Wikipedia seemed like a good idea. Why not democratise the supply of knowledge and allow anyone to contribute to its entries? You no longer had to rely on those old, dusty, expensive Encyclopaedia Brittanica’s, written by fusty ancient Oxbridge don’s, labouring to produce boring accuracy whilst peering over their half-rimmed spectacles. Just one click on your mouse and – wham bam! A world of exciting knowledge was laid before you.
Except, even in its days of innocence Wikipedia was hardly authoritative. I have read articles in Wikipedia on subjects I know something about and detected dozens of errors, inaccuracies and misleading statements. There is no editorial control over Wikipedia, no authoritative guiding hand. It’s a playground for amateur know-it-all’s with an axe to grind.
Now students at universities at schools no longer have to Labour through books or undertake research. They just plagiarise Wikipedia articles and hand in work that has cost them no labour, display no original thought and are often just plain wrong.
But it gets worse. Wikipedia has been taken over by woke, left wing activists so it now adds ideological indoctrination to its heady mix of muddle-headedness. Many entries now read as they have been written by Owen Jones or Robin DiAngelo. Wikipedia are quite open about this. One senior Wikipedia executive recently commented that if you voted for Trump (and probably Brexit as well) then you were unfit to contribute to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not accurate and it is certainly not unbiased.
All of this has caused Wikipedia’s co-founder, Larry Sanger, to criticise it’s left-wing bias, saying the popular online encyclopedia has become an ‘irretrievably broken platform for socialism’.
Time to dust of those Encyclopaedia Brittanicas.
An encyclopaedic pile of cunt if ever there was one.
Nominated by: MMCM



