Reading his Wiki page, he does sound rather reasonable. Support for Occupy Wallstreet, running as a UK Labour candidate, openly calling not to elect Trump and also calling the US Libertarian Party “lunatics”.
kibiz0r@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Jimmy Wales: Libertarian that ended up creating perhaps the most successful collectivist project of all time.
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
British libertarians get a pass on account of living in a monarchy but if you want to know why Labour’s shitting the bed, well, they let a right wing libertarian run
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
this is a perfect example of why we should always allow an escape space for everyone. Sometimes that person in the space you are polar opposed too will create something that defies even their own rules
snowboardbumvt@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
In what way does Wikipedia defy Jimmy Wales own rules?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I consider myself libertarian and absolutely love Wikipedia! In fact, if I didn’t have to work, I’d work on FOSS full time.
Libertarians have no issues with collectivism, they only have issues with forced collectivism. Libertarians love private unions, co-ops, non-profits, etc.
snowboardbumvt@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s how most libertarians I’ve talked to think. There are some people who call themselves libertarians who actually just want the government out of the way so mega corps can control everything, but i don’t think Jimmy Wales is one of them.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
There are a lot of people on Wikipedia(s). There’s bound to be some that defy its creator.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Lemmy itself is a good example of this. Most of the userbase heavily disagrees with the main developers’ political opinions, yet the software works well for everyone.