American - Businessman | August 7, 1966 -
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
Jimmy Wales
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We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.
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The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.
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My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.
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I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.
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If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.
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Free speech includes the right to not speak.
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A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.
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The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.
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We have to come together, worldwide, and 'think.' We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.
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If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.
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What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.
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