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> “One of the sad issues is this: We expressed on every platform since the first day that the process of blocking access to the whole of Wikipedia was unlawful,” Gonenc Gurkaynak, a lawyer representing Wikimedia, wrote on Twitter.

Huh? So does this imply that blocking access to specific Wikipedia articles would be lawful?

That would not be such a reassuring concession by someone representing Wikimedia.

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Yeah, it sounds kinda funny.

Turkey used to block Twitter and YouTube, just because of a tweet or a video. But because it causes such a problem for the government, they passed a bill allowing just to block some URLs. Not the whole website. So now, many of the news websites have specific pages that are blocked.

I believe he refers to this.

Thanks. So it is OK if it's specific.

I guess that's not so unusual, really.

Not that it doesn't suck.

Yes, there are many countries in which specific articles are blocked, for example when the truthfulness of their contents is challenged in court. Though in that case it's a judge that decides that, not the government.

I get that they're not executive or legislative.

But they are for sure government.

Funny you should say that, because a lot of US companies eventually implement filters that follow local censorship.

Yeah, they do.

I hate it. It's one reason for using VPNs.

But the global takedowns, that really sucks.

First and foremost they implement US censorship policies.

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