No your comparison is invalid Your magnitude difference is just proportional to the difference of the realms we re talking about editing a wiki knowledgebase vs living Saying you can log off from Wikipedia if you don t like Jimbo is like saying you can just kill yourself if you don t like living under your local dictator It s saying you can give up on the entire thing if you don t like the conditions If people don t have a better option they will prefer suboptimal conditions to giving up entirely That s why even people who despise Jimbo remain on Wikipedia just as people in dictatorial countries don t kill themselves However in the latter case some will emigrate if they can whereas there s no option to go to another Wikipedia equivalent because it s a natural monopoly Love it or leave it is an idiotic argument in the real world already but even more so on Wikipedia Criticizing Wikipedia s dictator is as legitimate as criticizing any other dictator Since Jimbo is no longer paying anything for Wikipedia he has no moral standing to claim eternal leadership It s just an artifact of his role in the founding of Wikipedia which he has cleverly perpetuated If this was a private company it would be a different matter but Jimbo himself is all the time presenting this as a cultural thing and as a self governing community playing down his own supremacy by not using any title like chairman or president just calling himself founder