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> I wonder what would be an effective countermeasure against stuff like this.

You withdraw all operations from within that country and you don't comply.

Doesn't work, see Brazil vs X.

Censorship friendly competitors BlueSky and Threads swooped in and took away X's users and revenue.

BlueSky couldn't stop boasting how many users it got from the fiasco, and their posts were highly upvoted on HN and celebrated.

There’s plenty of hate for X on HN and abroad. I don’t think the crowd on HN is going to have the same reaction to Wikimedia taking a hardline stance against censorship.

Blocking the world’s foremost encyclopaedia vs blocking an extremely popular gossip app.

Sadly, an Indian competitor would appear, probably by ripping off Wikimedia’s own content.

Correct. Because X is controlled by a ideological demogogue who has become the very thing he railed against that never was before him.

Anyone can copy Wikimedia content. That is explicitly allowed and not ripping anyone off.

Twitter is a private profit seeking company, Wikipedia is a non-profit with the overwhelming majority of its funding coming from the US and EU[1]. Additional users cost them money, they don't bring any so it is in fact baffling that they would comply with something like this.

[1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2020-21_Report#/...

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