What the hell?

Edit - Quoting @[email protected]

Wikipedia is not currently banned in Russia. But the Russian branch of Wikimedia as an organization is. Also, pretty much nobody in Russia uses Ruwiki, everyone keeps using Wikipedia.

That’s all not to say it isn’t a troubling development, though. But Russians are more likely to access Wikipedia through VPN than to rely on Ruwiki. The game’s not lost.

    • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      I guess they did it only locally. Though it doesn’t exactly fit the definition even that way. And why would it be ironic?

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        8 months ago

        'Cos that tactic is Microsoft™.

        Then again the Russian Federation is a fascist state run by oligarchs, so not that much different from the fascist state run by billionaire CEOs that the US is…

        • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.ee
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          8 months ago

          Seriously? Ehh…

          Of course Russia is facist though, what else would it be? Maybe you got it wrong with a historic non existing failed country created by absolute psychopaths?