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We're seeing the effects of globalisation.

India has no right to control what the rest of the world sees.

You're right, they don't. This is voluntary censorship by the Wikimedia Foundation. They are free to continue publishing this article everywhere but India.

Presumably they don't want India to ban all of Wikipedia, so they're playing ball.

Neither does Europe, yet they still try.

European push for privacy legislation seems quite different than we’re talking about here.

The only point being compared was the claim or attempt at global jurisdiction in a limited scope.

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