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Is the Wikimedia Foundation about to sell out its editors—and its principles? (www.thewikipedian.net)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We were blocked in Turkey for 3 years or so, and fought all the way to the Supreme Court and won. Nothing has changed about our principles. The difference in this case is that the short term legal requirements in order to not wreck the long term chance of victory made this a necessary step.

Hopefully not block the entire website in India.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why? VPNs exist and fuck Modi

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not everyone knows of/has access to VPN's.

I don't disagree with your sentiment, but I also get why they'd rather try to resolve it legally. If they succeed it will allow for much easier access for the majority of visitors.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They'll learn quickly. The Arab Spring bore that out.

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

And where are those Arab countries now?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Reading Wikipedia

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wikipedia unfortunately has a policy of blocking so-called open proxies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Most of the internet blocks open proxies. They're often times used in malicious attacks. Just blocking them isn't suspicious at all.

edit: This post is also quite old. Kind of weird that you're necro-commenting on it...