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> “One of the sad issues is this: We expressed on every platform since the first day that the process of blocking access to the whole of Wikipedia was unlawful,
by mirimir 7y ago
> “One of the sad issues is this: We expressed on every platform since the first day that the process of blocking access to the whole of Wikipedia was unlawful,” Gonenc Gurkaynak, a lawyer representing Wikimedia, wrote on Twitter.
Huh? So does this imply that blocking access to specific Wikipedia articles would be lawful?
That would not be such a reassuring concession by someone representing Wikimedia.
- raicem 7y agoYeah, it sounds kinda funny. Turkey used to block Twitter and YouTube, just because of a tweet or a video. But because it causes such a problem for the government, they passed a bill allowing just to block some URLs. Not the whole website. So now, many of the news websites have specific pages that are blocked. I believe he refers to this.
- mirimir 7y agoThanks. So it is OK if it's specific. I guess that's not so unusual, really. Not that it doesn't suck.
- bonzini 7y agoYes, there are many countries in which specific articles are blocked, for example when the truthfulness of their contents is challenged in court. Though in that case it's a judge that decides that, not the government.
- mirimir 7y agoI get that they're not executive or legislative. But they are for sure government.
- tehlike 7y agoFunny you should say that, because a lot of US companies eventually implement filters that follow local censorship.