The Wikimedia Foundation says it will likely roll out features previously used to protect editors in authoritarian countries more widely.

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    2 days ago

    Probably should consider moving the foundation to the EU or at least somewhere not so hostile to fact based information services.

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      There’s a huge chunk of the internet that needs to learn a lesson and understand that being hosted in the USA isn’t a good idea.

      Same with people working on things that are illegal from a copyright perspective (video games remakes for example). Post from behind a VPN using a nickname, share via torrent or host somewhere where they don’t care about US copyright laws… People don’t learn and get a C&D letter they could have dodged…

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        You’re right, but to be honest I would not have thought the slide to authoritarianism would go this fast. We still have to see of course who will win the legal battles, the courts or Trump, but it’s not looking great.