Hello there, you're Awakening Wonders. Thanks for joining us today. If you're watching us on YouTube,

we'll be there for a few minutes before being exclusively available on Rumble, because obviously,

this is a time where we have to be supported and we have to be incredibly cautious about the way

we talk about a omnic crisis across the world where there is so much suffering, so much conflict,

so much doubt.

We have to be very, very specific about what we say and your support is absolutely invaluable to us.

We're talking, of course, about the ongoing crisis in the Middle East and America's potential

role in arming the world. 50% or 57% of the world's autocratic nations have been sold arms by the

American military industrial complex. Additionally, we're talking to Larry Sanger, one of the founders

of Wikipedia about how Wikipedia exemplifies the trend towards censorship from open source

and collaboratively achieved information.

Time now to introduce Larry. Larry, thank you so much for joining us today.

You must have started Wikipedia as I'm imagining a fresh-faced idealist, full of potential and possibility, believing that Wikipedia would become an open source of knowledge collaboration,

perhaps creating a consensus around a variety of complex topics.

Can you tell me how Wikipedia changed from the vision you originally had to it

and how it can be used as a kind of thermometer for a changing global climate when it comes to establishment

intervention, censorship, authoritarianism and centralisation.

You ask a very big question.

So let's just take the first one then, basically how it changed.

You know, when it started, there was a very robust neutrality policy.

Articles had to be balanced.

Many different points of view needed to be able to be stated, and they were actually in the first several years.

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