This was the decade we learned to hate the internet, to decry its impact on our brains and society and to detest the amoral organizations that dominate it. (...) Amid this horror show, there is Wikipedia (...) a hero of the 2010s, because while the internet mostly got worse, it kept getting better, reminding us that the web can be a good thing, a place where we have instant access to endless information, a true project of the commons at a political moment when the very idea of the mutual good is under assault. —Mother Jones (ref), December 2019 |
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