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Trying to shut down a site by going after their domain names will always be a losing battle. As long as the link on their Wikipedia article keeps being updated,
by hayleox 6mo ago
Trying to shut down a site by going after their domain names will always be a losing battle. As long as the link on their Wikipedia article keeps being updated, it'll remain easy to access. And it would be a pretty shocking attack on free speech if a U.S. court tried to order the Wikimedia Foundation to take that down; I suspect the public response would be similar to when the movie industry tried to get the AACS encryption key taken down in the 2000s.
- 6thbit 6mo agowho updates wikipedia with the new domains? how do they know the new ones?
- gruez 6mo agoDoes it matter? It's not illegal to update an article with a new domain.
- mercanlIl 6mo agoYes it does matter. Users need to know that the updated URL is correct and trustworthy.
- tossandthrow 6mo agoThis is Wikipedia. For that type of publishing please use Encyclopedia Britannica. You will get the url in the 2027 edition on print.
- paweladamczuk 6mo agoOh how I wish the print editions were still being released.
- fenykep 6mo agoIf you are really interested we could try piping their [API](https://encyclopediaapi.com/products/index https://encyclopediaapi.com/products/index) to some printable format. Maybe we can even find a quality print on demand service or bind it by hand :)
- masfuerte 6mo agoThey are published on the old ones. The old ones don't all get shut down simultaneously.
- dnnddidiej 6mo agoSo old school! They gonna release an MCP?
- flexagoon 6mo agoNo idea how an MCP is relevant to the discussion, it still needs a working domain name to talk to the service. But, https://github.com/iosifache/annas-mcp https://github.com/iosifache/annas-mcp
- imtringued 6mo agoHis point is that you don't need a working domain name since the MCP can just hardcode the IPs of the servers or resolve them through any other method that isn't DNS.
- JoshuaDavid 6mo agoWould be fairly easy for them to offer an onion service on which they publish the current list of domains, as one option among many, many options for distributing small strings on the internet in an uncensorable way.
- 6thbit 6mo agothe beauty of wikipedia as dns is its easy access, are there similarly easily accessible uncensorable ways?
- JoshuaDavid 6mo agoIdeally it is common knowledge that the onion service exists, and then people can go look at the onion service and update Wikipedia based on what they see there.
- zenmac 6mo agoAlso onion doesn't require a domain register
- mattmaroon 6mo agoWhile true, most people don’t (and won’t ever) know how to use it. But enough will to keep Wikipedia updated I suppose.