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RE: Hive Can Make Wikipedia Worthless

in LeoFinance2 years ago

'MSM' is a handy scapegoat for the 'right' (neither is a single thing). Rupert Murdoch controls a lot of the world's media and he has happily supported right wing causes. Mind you, he doesn't like supporting losers and switched to pushing for a Labour government in the UK for a while before reverting to the Conservatives. A lot of the other press in the UK is right wing, including the biggest selling papers. Some can be a bit fickle when they feel the public mood is changing.

Musk likes to stir up trouble.

Actually with projects such as Wikipedia and also things like open source the idea is to give a collective good without necessarily getting individual profit. That would be more of a left wing ideal and so will attract people who prefer that. Hive may be considered more right wing as it is about profit, but then it has some appealing features for those who want to break away from corporate control.

I do think there is potential for decentralising things like Wikipedia. It could be useful for something like Github too so no one company controls access. There are bound to be challenges in scaling up a blockchain solution to such large amounts of data, but that is technical rather than political.