Larry Sanger Said Wikipedia Punishes Dissent. Then It Banned Him

10 pointsposted 8 hours ago
by anonymousiam

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BugsJustFindMe

7 hours ago

Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643407 with greater intellectual honesty than this tabloid of a post. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Adminis...

> When the editors closed the discussion that ended his run it wasn’t that they concluded that he broke an explicit rule.

That's false. Behaviors associated with a "NOT HERE" determination are explicitly against the rules.

I'm also going to add that reclaimthenet.org is not a reliable source:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44953549

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23276430