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Wikipedia Censored in UK
- lemoncookiechip 1y agoWhole chain of comments: https://imgur.com/PU7nROZ https://imgur.com/PU7nROZ
- mathiaspoint 1y agoWhat is ofcom going to do? Extradite Wkimedia employees? The most they could realistically do is ban them from recursive resolvers. Maybe they could force ISPs to block routes to their ASN if they have their own and aren't using someone else's CDN. What a dumb idea.
- lemoncookiechip 1y agosemi-related: https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/cloudflare-cracks-down-on-uk-piracy-and-vpn-users-are-getting-caught-in-the-crossfire https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/cloudflar...
- slater 1y ago> Extradite Wkimedia employees? Are you sure Wikimedia doesn't have UK-based employees?
- mathiaspoint 1y agoThey probably won't for much longer.
- Jigsy 1y agoThey actually have the power to arrest them - or have them arrested - if they ever visit the UK, though. Especially if they refuse to block stuff or if Ofcom feels that they didn't do a good enough job of censoring content. This is one of the reasons why Civitai blocked the UK. (As confirmed by a member of staff on Reddit.)
- ethan_smith 1y agoThe UK's Online Safety Act requires platforms to remove "harmful" content, but the Wikimedia Foundation has previously stated they would resist content removal demands that conflict with their editorial independence, potentially creating this standoff.
- _lvbh 1y agoWhy can't all this effort be spent on improving public infrastructure instead? The fact that it's even a possibility that wikipedia could be blocked and employees barred fro the UK makes it worse than China. Tory and Labor might as well unite into a single CCP-esq party