> fundamental cause of the decline is the English Wikipedia’s increasingly narrow attitude as to what are acceptable topics and to what depth those topics can b

> fundamental cause of the decline is the English Wikipedia’s increasingly narrow attitude as to what are acceptable topics and to what depth those topics can be explored, combined with a narrowed attitude as to what are acceptable sources, where academic & media coverage trumps any consideration of other factors. This is a result of the state/traditional media asserting more control over internet propaganda. Year by year, what is acceptable on wikipedia, forums, social media, etc have narrowed. Followed by the strong arming of these tech companies into privileging authoritarian/authoritative sources. Look at what happened to youtube. There was a time when they had great recommendations and you could go into a "deep dive" of youtube for hours. Now, the recommendations has no depth and focused on "late night shows", establishment news and pre-screened content. Google search is no better. Reddit is just advertisement/pr ( celebrity X donated 5 masks to a hospital ) garbage and propaganda. It's pretty impressive how easily and quickly a handful of "bankrupt" news companies could control trillion dollar tech companies. What you could write, say, etc and what you could watch, hear, etc has been limited in just few years. And the trend doesn't seem to be stopping. Just 10 years ago, nobody could've predicted this could happen.