I might be mistaken, but aren’t Wikipedia’s origins in objectivism? It would make sense if so for the foundation to oppose a trade union (in no way am I saying they are in the right though).
Uh, what? The Ayn Rand garbage philosophy? I’ve never heard that and don’t see how that jibes with a free, crowd sourced encyclopedia…
Yeah the founder is or was into that. Thus the idea that Wikipedia’s editorial decisions could essentially be made by algorithms. I have some jokes about it but will spare you for now. The WMF itself is just another tech company with some nonprofit virtue vibes though. Expect a typical campaign.
Jimmy Wales is an objectivist- he moderated online forums related to Ayn Rand before he started Nupedia and Wikipedia.
An Ayn Rand acolyte begging for donations every other month then refusing to do right by his employees?
Yup sounds like the kind of hypocritical bullshit a so-called “objectivist” would do. SMDH
Should make for a spicy secion on wikipedias own history page, eh?
Not too spicy, but they at least acknowledge it.
On 27 July, WMF declined to voluntarily recognize the US union. WMF stated that the union would need to pursue a formal NLRB election procedure. 404 Media viewed the WMF’s 27 July statement as using “very carefully-worded language common among companies and organizations that have fought against unionization”.
I wonder jusy how much they’re relying on Trump’s NLRB to sweep it under the rug. I highly doubt they’re doing this in good faith.
