Reasons Why Wikipedia Is A Gigantic Threat To Civilization

Reasons Why Wikipedia is a Gigantic Threat to Civilization

An informed and knowledgeable populace is the foundation of any free society. Wikipedia is destroying this foundation.

Spreads Misinformation

Easier to Google --> Wikipedia than to crack a textbook
Articles often weakly or incorrectly sourced
Sources are often simply other websites
Children failing to learn how to use traditional information sources
Plagiarizes content from other information sources, driving them down in the search rankings and reducing incentives to publish
It can be taken down, as events on January 18, 2012 showed, when it was brought down to protest the SOPA bill that was being considered in Congress. Previously, in September 2011, the Italian Wikipedia was brought down by Wikipedians themselves for political reasons as well.

Contempt for expertise
Focus only on more free content
Unfair blocks and bans
Contested articles off-limits for regular users
Intolerance of dissent
Refuses constructive criticism
Administrators use software tools and other methods to collect and disseminate personal information about users
Cabal of elite administrators and Jimbo Wales controls the project via secret mailing lists
Financial proceeds from free content generation are fed to Google, Amazon, and Wikia rather than pumped back into the project
The GNU Free Documentation License can change at any time based on the whim of Jimbo Wales and the Foundation.
Articles are deleted and moved to Wikia, where Jimmy Wales can make money off them.