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   🇪🇷Götterdämmerung (gotterdammerung@glitch.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jan-2026 20:31:57 JST 🇪🇷Götterdämmerung

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   Critics sneer that "anyone can edit!" Sure and democracy lets anyone vote. Yet we don't propose reinstating kings (some of you do but that's another diagnosis). Wiki replaces the myth of infallible authors with something much more threatening: collective scrutiny. Truth under surveillance. Error with a timestamp.

   The real fear isn't that Wiki is wrong. It's how it exposes the so-called authorities were wrong and got away with it because no one was allowed to check. Wiki puts expertise on trial.

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     🇪🇷Götterdämmerung (gotterdammerung@glitch.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jan-2026 20:31:58 JST 🇪🇷Götterdämmerung

     #Wikipedia is unreliable, they say, clutching their leather-bound encyclopedias like holy relics, as if truth only descends when printed by men in tweed who haven't updated an entry since the Cold War.

     In 2005, on the internet, knowledge was no gated estate guarded by experts who confuse authority with inertia. Wikipedia's great sin is not inaccuracy but visibility. Its errors are public, argued over, corrected in daylight. Britannica's errors were embalmed in paper & sold at premium.

     SuperDicq repeated this.