Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has proposed a way to decentralize social media that could defang censorship and improve privacy. Sanger, who parted ways with Wikipedia almost two decades ago over the project’s direction, is now working on developing technical standards that could strip power over social media from giant companies and give users more control over the content they produce and see. Concerns over the power of social media platforms have emerged across the political spectrum in recent years. Conservatives are primarily irked by censorship of political speech by the tech behemoths, while many liberals have long criticized the companies for intrusive collection of personal information. “What needs to exist is a system that just makes it really easy for the average user to push out their social media content from a place that they own, like a blog, and then make it available on all these different platforms so …