I would expect something like this from my mother country sooner than India. Surprised but not that surprised. The precedent being set is concerning.
this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2024
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The precedent was years ago with Facebook and WhatsApp blocking alleged anti government messages (which the court branded as anti-nation, sedition). Last year the BBC documentary about Modi and alleged fascism was world news and led to the departure of BBC from India. The problem is that the world sees India as an emerging market where in fact it is a fascist country in the making.
How can they block this for everyone?
it's more of a blackmail. Wikipedia could have kept the article online for everybody but they would have deprived 1,5 billion people in India of the whole Wikipedia.
The judge on the case stated "If you don't like India, please don't work in India... We will ask government to block your site".
On 21 October, the Wikimedia Foundation suspended access to the article for Asian News International vs. Wikimedia Foundation due to an order from the court.
Also, how can they sue a company based in another country.
i'm guessing that it must be like Xitter in Brazil. If a company is present in a country, they may require a legal representation which can be held accountable.
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This is pretty big news, I would think it would be relevant in way more than just one article, time to do some updating.
WTF, If wikipedia get blocked in my country. Then, I am just graduating to leave my shitty country.
the list of countries you will be leaving is long ☞ https://sh.itjust.works/post/27190154
I am going to Antartica.
Don't forget to bring fruit!
If recent news about Antarctica turning green more rapidly is to go by, one might just find fruits there soon.
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You should leave anyway if you have a chance. Germany looking for 70.000 skilled Indians.
Germany wants the immigrant but i don't think young germans want that. Look at the recent rise of AFD among young germans. Maybe they need immigrants so when the economy goes down they can blame it on immigrants
Hahaha go ahead and block it you dumb fucks, only your citizenry will suffer.
Somehow it doesn't surprise me that India wants to ban free flipping knowledge
Seems like a good opportunity to remind folks about the Kiwix project, which allows you to download local private copies of select information such as Wikipedia. It was originally created to provide offline access to content for countries that were otherwise blocked, but events like this have sparked some recent discussion about archiving older files to preserve history.
So, lemme get this straight: Wikipedia is being censored (worldwide, might I add) because a party complains that they are reported of as being accused of a thing, or because of the thing itself?
Why not allow India to block Wikipedia? Or have a filter that hides Indians dark secrets, when coming from India.
Because it's the government of india that wants to block wikipedia for Indian citizens.