Recently Wikipedia editors in Belarus and Saudi Arabia have been jailed —in one case sentenced to 32 years— for editing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p

Recently Wikipedia editors in Belarus and Saudi Arabia have been jailed —in one case sentenced to 32 years— for editing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_imprisoned_for_editing_Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_imprisoned_for_... The Wikimedia Foundation resists requests from foreign governments to unmask editors, but sometimes they’ve already publicly identified themselves or been discovered because of state surveillance / control of ISPs. Governments using this tactic to silence the most active Wikipedia editors and create a chilling effect is a really serious threat to Wikipedia, and we need better technical tools for helping Wikipedians stay anonymous. The biggest thing HN folks can do here is contribute (code or dollars) to projects like Tor. Unfortunately since Tor is really complex to use and the source of so much spam and abuse, it’s just not very effective today at protecting people from state actors.