House to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias

There is a ton of bias on Wikipedia. But this is the nature of anything trying to create a collective understanding of the world that involves multiple authors with diverse viewpoints.

But given the way this administration works (looking at their treatment of Universities/Colleges), they will only identify specific types of bias:

- criticism of Republicans

- criticism of Christian conservatism

- pro-LGBTQ+

- criticism of Israel

and try to punish Wikipedia for it, while allowing all other types of bias to flourish.

This isn't that different than the TikTok ban being motivated in Congress by the prevalence of criticism of Israel on TikTok: https://forward.com/culture/688840/tiktok-ban-gaza-palestine...

I expect financial sanctions to be threatened. Because Wikipedia is a US-based, it will likely end up in US court like so many of the other Trump policies.

UC Berkeley students embarrassed themselves on the world stage by attacking the free speech rights of conservative speakers... petualant, threatening and very in the media. People in Berkeley familiar with the history bent their heads in grief to see it. Free speech means that yes, conservatives may also speak in public IMHO

So what is a greater threat to free speech.

A group of students throwing a tantrum because someone they don’t like was invited to speak?

The most powerful government in the world using every tool it has to make the university whose speech they don’t like suffer? Tools including threatening to remove accreditation, refusing to disburse hundreds of millions of dollars in grants, threatening to end the student visas of the international students, etc.