Comment on Wikimedia Foundation calls on US Supreme Court to strike laws that threaten Wikipedia

• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  True, but I’m pretty sure collective punishment is illegal or at least frowned upon in most countries…

  Regardless of legality, it would go against the whole mission statement of being the world’s largest freely available encyclopedia to just start geoblocking everyone from states with ridiculous laws…

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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This isn’t “punishment” in the eyes of the law. There’s really nothing preventing a site from banning an entire state, it’s happened before, it’ll happen again the way these laws are going.

    But yeah, in the specific case of Wikipedia I doubt they’ll do it unless things get pushed to the absolutely limit of what they can handle.

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