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  • It sets an absolutely obscene precedent that a government can globally restrict information

    Again, the information is still everywhere.

    Even global terrible actors like Russia and China haven’t succeeded at that.

    Actually, the Chinese Wikipedia used to have a systemic bias in favor of the CPC before China blocked it, after which the bias was changed.

    because the entirety of Wikipedia is open source and would be mirrored in the country instantly

    It’s a bit elitist to restrict information—weapons of revolution—to those who know how to find a mirror website. Why don’t you survey the Chinese nationals in-person to see if they know how to get on Wikipedia? Plus, to avoid block evasion, no mirrors would be able to edit Wikipedia.


  • Dude, what bad does this do? To the Indian people, to you? The information has already been plastered all over the internet, including archives of said article, which anyone may access at their will and command. You want billions of Indian peoples to suffer and be deprived of intellectual revolution for what, grinding a utopic axe? Ceasing operations in India would do way more damage to Wikipedia’s goal.




  • could you link to examples of the past?

    Information is the power behind revolutions and popular democracy. I’d be surprised if the WMF didn’t check a web archive before taking down the article. The court case was already all over worldwide news before that anyways. If they took the article down from archives, that’d be a different story.

    India isn’t capable of enforcing fines against an organization that doesn’t operate in their country

    You serve a website in that country, you operate in that country. What say you about the GDPR?