The current Indian government has prosecuted or detained employees of foreign companies in the past for actions taken by the company. There is a real risk here.
Comment on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court.
mlg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/…/Asian_News_International_vs._W…
wtf???
Why would they even bother to comply, India has no jurisdiction. Plenty of countries have banned wikipedia pages and the entire site before, why did wikimedia have to go out of their way to do it for them globally?
fpslem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Right! It’s so suspicious they did it worldwide.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
can’t ban pages anymore with https, and while they don’t want to be lumped in with the authoritarian states that ban all on Wikipedia, they are like them at heart