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To the degree that servers are not present in India, and WMF/Wikipedia assets are not hosted in India, I don't find that Indian courts have any means to assert
by aspenmayer 2y ago
To the degree that servers are not present in India, and WMF/Wikipedia assets are not hosted in India, I don't find that Indian courts have any means to assert their rulings over Wikipedia or WMF outside Indian IP space, to my understanding.
Wikipedia just doesn't want to be blackholed in India until legal avenues are explored, so they complied with a too-broad ruling, in my opinion.
The case isn't over yet.
https://archive.is/dNTEl https://archive.is/dNTEl
> The Safe Harbor clause of Information and Technology Act, 2000, comparable to Section 230 of Communications Act of 1934 in the United States, exempts online platforms from any legal liability for third-party content generated by its users and hosted by the platform, subject to several conditions. In February 2021, the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party government introduced amendments to the IT Act, imposing stricter obligations on intermediaries, including requiring them to proactively monitor content for illegal or harmful activity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Technology_Act,_2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Technology_Act,_20...