I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I’m Banned for Life. Wikipedia's Leftist Bias.

The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods

SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column, more about Wikipedia’s blatant bias.

Wikipedia Bans One of Its Founders

First up, there is this piece by Larry Sanger at The Free Press: I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I’m Banned for Life.

JWR’s Comment: For more details on Wikipedia’s horrendous bias, see my 2016 SurvivalBlog article: The World Through Pink-Colored Glasses: Wikipedia’s Leftist Editorial Distortions. Also see Grokipedia’s detailed AI-generated article on Wikipedia’s ideological bias.

Pushing Back Against The Beast System

Reader Brad F. suggested a recent essay by Leo Hohmann: How To Push Back Against The ‘Advancing Beast’ System. Here is a pericope:

“The power elites who run things at the local, state and federal levels want to tag and track our movement, but not just our movement. They want to track our diet, our healthcare, our purchasing habits, our use of energy, our online comment history, our very thoughts.

They want all of it. And if they get their way, you will own nothing. Literally nothing. Even if you technically own an asset, you will not control it, so do you really own it?”

The Backlash Against ALPR Cameras

In The WSJ: The Nationwide Backlash Against Cameras Watching Your Car.

School Busses to Become Roaming Surveillance Vehicles

A Markets Today article, by way of MSN: Your kids’ school bus is about to become a roaming surveillance vehicle. (Our thanks to reader C.B. for the link.)

Smartphones Lower Birthrates

In The New York Times: The Choice Is Not Babies or iPhones. Here is an excerpt:

“A working paper published in the National Bureau of Economic Research this month seemed like the most promising single-factor explanation yet: ‘Is the iPhone Birth Control? Causal Evidence From AT&T’s 2007-2011 Carrier Monopoly’ uses a natural experiment to correlate fertility decline with smartphone use. When Apple first rolled out the iPhone in June 2007, it was available only on AT&T’s network. The researchers mapped the geographic rollout of the phone between June 2007 and February 2011 (when AT&T stopped being the exclusive carrier) to compare fertility rates in those parts of the United States with and without the mobile phones.”