Wikipedia’s founder, Jimmy Wales, calls Australia’s social media ban an “unmitigated disaster” that is teaching kids to accept surveillance from tech companies, the
Guardian reports. Wales, who founded Wikipedia, in 2001, says many ills of social media existed even in the early stages of the internet.“Before social media, before Wikipedia, there
was Usenet, which was like a giant, unmoderated message board,” he said. “It was unbelievably toxic: flame wars constantly and personal attacks and just general
horribleness.
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