Critics note that the Wikimedia Foundation only provides a platform (Wikipedia) for volunteer editors, who follow a public vetting process, unlike the centralised editorial control on platforms like Twitter or Facebook.
Mishi Choudhary, founder of SFLC.in, spoke with The Hindu Businessline about the same.
She said, “Wikimedia Foundation only provides infrastructure and doesn’t control any content. Volunteer Editors have a public process by which content is vetted per rules. The Court must be assisted to understand that Wikimedia Foundation is not like Twitter or Facebook where a centralized entity controls what’s published on it. We cannot force the only place on the Internet that is trustworthy and doesn’t surveil its readers for advertisements to be subjected to arbitrary Rules because of our inability to appreciate the editorial and technical architecture.”
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Experts challenge Govt’s threat to reclassify Wikipedia from intermediary to publisher
