dbzer0 is only as thematic as ml is imo

The very second website in the file they use to track recently-moved websites uses substack (now).

Meanwhile, Automattic’s response to WP Engine’s lawsuit claimed the company “failed to plausibly allege specific financial harm.”

The footer says the site is operated by Automattic.

There were only “two parties in all States,” Randolph concluded. “The ins and the outs.” The ins construed governmental power broadly for the gain of their own “patronage and wealth,” while the outs tried to limit such power. “But let the outs get in . . . and you will find their Constitutional scruples and arguments vanish like dew before the morning sun.”

I don’t get what you mean by Harris being more racist and sexist, but I agree that the campaign failed to change perception of failure despite how much they succeeded.

Fuck no, fuck the system.

these lemmy users who were insulting all russians in the “expulsion of russian maintainers” thread because according to them the majority back putin

I don’t think much people said that; at most that any Russian can be forced their hand by the state.

270towin

NUUUU

Could you elaborate on the Tencent part? I understand they have a large stake, but why is it their collab and not Epic’s?

It sets an absolutely obscene precedent that a government can globally restrict information

Again, the information is still everywhere.

Even global terrible actors like Russia and China haven’t succeeded at that.

Actually, the Chinese Wikipedia used to have a systemic bias in favor of the CPC before China blocked it, after which the bias was changed.

because the entirety of Wikipedia is open source and would be mirrored in the country instantly

It’s a bit elitist to restrict information—weapons of revolution—to those who know how to find a mirror website. Why don’t you survey the Chinese nationals in-person to see if they know how to get on Wikipedia? Plus, to avoid block evasion, no mirrors would be able to edit Wikipedia.

Dude, what bad does this do? To the Indian people, to you? The information has already been plastered all over the internet, including archives of said article, which anyone may access at their will and command. You want billions of Indian peoples to suffer and be deprived of intellectual revolution for what, grinding a utopic axe? Ceasing operations in India would do way more damage to Wikipedia’s goal.

But the information is already available archived elsewhere? Don’t you think the people of India deserve to be educated?

Could you at least give me some keywords to search?

Firstly, Wikimedia does have many usergroup organizations (i.e. subchapters) in India. And even without that, my point is that Wikipedia can’t shut down in India.

could you link to examples of the past?

Information is the power behind revolutions and popular democracy. I’d be surprised if the WMF didn’t check a web archive before taking down the article. The court case was already all over worldwide news before that anyways. If they took the article down from archives, that’d be a different story.

India isn’t capable of enforcing fines against an organization that doesn’t operate in their country

You serve a website in that country, you operate in that country. What say you about the GDPR?

chungus!!

They already have the capability to block content locally.

If by “They” you mean Wikipedia, they don’t. Contempt of court risks excluding all Indian editors and readers from using Wikipedia along with hefty fines.

http://archive.today/2024.10.21-025435/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_News_International_vs._Wikimedia_Foundation

not sure it’d be better if they wrote censorship software to protect articles based on geolocated IP for this

there’s still https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_News_International#Litigation_against_other_organisations

Indians still deserve their information

It’s quite independent from Wikidata. It’s an alpha-stage programming functions repository.