• @[email protected]
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    1662 months ago

    No surprise there - Republicans have hated Wikipedia pretty much from the start, since they require valid attribution and constantly fact check, which means the Republicans can’t spin their lies.

    • @[email protected]
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      752 months ago

      Fortunately whatever happens, wiki is downloaded all over the world. If they try to “regulate” or shut it down, it will just pop up abroad.

      You cannot suppress open source info.

      • FaceDeer
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        382 months ago

        The tricky bit is that Wikipedia is a “living” document, constantly being updated and refined by a huge community of dedicated editors, and you can’t download the community and pop up a new one overnight. AI isn’t that good yet.

        • albert180
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          322 months ago

          Then you just move the domain to one of their many subsidiaries abroad. The Community will be smart enough to access another Wikipedia tld

          • @[email protected]
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            22 months ago

            The community wasn’t smart enough to switch to Lemmy, it’s not so easy.

            Fuck u/spez by the way

          • FaceDeer
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            192 months ago

            Assuming that there’s just one single new site that pops up that everyone agrees to go to en masse, and that it has enough resources to handle the load, and that its administration is aligned with the same goals as the original.

            It could happen, but it’s by no means as simple and easy as cloning a repository.

            • FuglyDuck
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              152 months ago

              They’d still use the top level domain, just change the physical server location and point there. Canada, maybe.

              • FaceDeer
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                52 months ago

                You’re still making the assumption that “they” are the same people. That’s the point here, Wikipedia-the-organization is being threatened.

                • FuglyDuck
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                  62 months ago

                  And you’re missing the larger point:

                  Paranoia is bad. If you jump at every “they could do…” you’re going to be unable to jump at the “they fucking are doing”.

                  You want something to freak out about? They’re arresting judges for managing their courtroom.

                  Yeah, threatening to yeet wiki’s nonprofit status is bad. But its a very far cry from offing the board or whoever is leading Wikipedia and installing their own.

                  This rampant paranoia is not helping the 2yo that got deported.

                  They can move the website out of the government’s reach, in response to any action they might take. Worrying about any other possibility is just jumping at shadows.

                  • FaceDeer
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                    22 months ago

                    Where do I say anything about “offing” the board? That’s rather a leap. I’m talking about the US government attacking the corporate structure of Wikipedia, which isn’t paranoia because this article is literally about exactly that.

              • Em Adespoton
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                42 months ago

                Problem with that is the domain is registered in the US. And the FBI has a history of claiming domains whose content the US government wants offline.

                • FuglyDuck
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                  92 months ago

                  What are you talking about?

                  You can just change to a registrar that is out of the country. Like. Really. Not that hard. This is a normal thing people do.

                  • skulblaka
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                    22 months ago

                    Is this a normal thing that normal people do when their fascist government is looking to have them bagged off the street and dropped at an offshore blacksite?

                    We no longer live in a normal world. Nothing can be assumed anymore. The Wikimedia foundation is in real danger.