Jimmy Wales supports blacklisting sources he does not ideologically agree with: Here is how it proves that Wikipedia’s bias is sanctioned and crafted from the top

In a recent interview published by Politics Home on 27th October, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales warned of a “political showdown” with the UK government over the Online Safety Act. He criticised the legislation as “poorly thought-out” and claimed that it would threaten the openness of the internet by forcing platforms to identify users and age-gate access. He argued that Wikipedia did not “cave into” the Turkish or the Chinese governments’ similar demands.

Yet, in the same conversation, Wales unapologetically defended Wikipedia’s own internal censorship, that is the blacklisting of sources he has personally deemed unreliable in the past. He insisted that “the idea that we should take sites that routinely publish crazy conspiracy theories and nonsense just doesn’t make any sense.”

While