Wikipedia is facing another threat.
  • sculd@beehaw.org
    5·
    13 hours ago

    Please I hope Wikipedia can move away from the state to a more stable country in Europe…

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
      48·
      3 days ago

      If I need to prove something stupid and immoral, and it relies on the assumption that 2+2=5, then 2+2=4 is woke propaganda. Simple as.

    • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
      22·
      2 days ago

      It is, but the problem is less the foundation but more the leading people - as long as they reside in the US they can and will be put under legal (and other) pressure and will at some point comply. (Same issue Proton and to a lesser extend signal have,btw) A regime that imprisons judges and imprisons people without due cause is totalitarian. Period.

      I got grilled on any social media channel I use (including here) for having reservations about free speech oriented foundations being set up in the US. (And in Switzerland for that purpose, btw)

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
      6·
      2 days ago

      But it does

      It can confiscate the domain name and with that, Wikipedia will be gone. People all over the world will have backups, and clones will spawn like there is no tomorrow but there is no federation, so each will do their own independent thing, fracturing mankinds knowledge even more

      • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        It depends where the domain is registered. The US can’t steal the domain from a German registrar.

        And even if the domain name got stolen, they dont need to clone it. Just put it behind a new domain name. It would cause maybe 24 hours of downtime.

        MediaWiki is already a global org. Even if all their US staff was arrested and the US servers seized, the rest of the team abroad would still be working.

        • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
          1·
          17 hours ago

          The US still controls ICANN and with that they can pretty much do with DNS names whatever they want. Steal it from a German registrar? Well yeah, they actually can, what are you going to do to stop that? That is a known issue, actually.

          I fully agree that they can switch domains but do not underestimate the importance.of domain names.

          Also, they can force Google and Bing to censor Wikipedia completely, not having any links to it anywhere. With that, for most users it won’t exist anymore

          There is a shit load of things that they can do to really make everyone miserable, this is what you get for giving the US damn near veto powers on Internet issues