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TIL in Saudi Arabia, a Wikipedia editor has been sentenced to 32 years of imprisonment just because of editing Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Countries thinking they can control the influence of the internet is just so fucking frustrating. Hopefully the US doesn't get the same idea.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I have bad news for you

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just the other day i was on a Canadian gov website looking for information and they linked to american research and the links where dead because the US took down the webpages

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a lesson for us Canadians in here somewhere, I can't quite put my finger on it...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Make archives of any important links you intend to reference, because you can't assume the link will be valid tomorrow?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

That's a good start.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't worry, I'm sure the Supreme Court will strike it down once it starts getting abused.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

~/s~ here....think you dropped this