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Russia's Wikipedia Shuts Down

• PeterCorless 3y ago
  We are about to see the fracturing of the Internet on a geopolitical basis not seen since the Cold War.
  • delfinom 3y ago
    Meh the internet has already been fractured for many many years now. It's just people live in their own bubbles. Heck, people seem to forget that a billion people live behind the great firewall of China for over a decade.
  • eimrine 3y ago
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• delfinom 3y ago
  Wikipedia Russia, the organization that supported it shut down. Not Wikipedia in Russia which is still online https://ru.wikipedia.org/ https://ru.wikipedia.org/
• pvg 3y ago
  Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38724093 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38724093 This version of the title is confusing, Russian Wikipedia itself is not going anywhere, Wikimedia in Russia is what is getting shut down.