Say it with me “you have no power over me”
But it does
It can confiscate the domain name and with that, Wikipedia will be gone. People all over the world will have backups, and clones will spawn like there is no tomorrow but there is no federation, so each will do their own independent thing, fracturing mankinds knowledge even more
It depends where the domain is registered. The US can’t steal the domain from a German registrar.
And even if the domain name got stolen, they dont need to clone it. Just put it behind a new domain name. It would cause maybe 24 hours of downtime.
MediaWiki is already a global org. Even if all their US staff was arrested and the US servers seized, the rest of the team abroad would still be working.
Is it realistic, or practical, for Wikipedia to register in a similar manner in another country?
It is, but the problem is less the foundation but more the leading people - as long as they reside in the US they can and will be put under legal (and other) pressure and will at some point comply. (Same issue Proton and to a lesser extend signal have,btw) A regime that imprisons judges and imprisons people without due cause is totalitarian. Period.
I got grilled on any social media channel I use (including here) for having reservations about free speech oriented foundations being set up in the US. (And in Switzerland for that purpose, btw)
Download your own copy of wikipedia.
https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng is one of many tools out there that can help you get a copy and even get it running in docker.
More copied of the data, less possible to take it all down.
wokepedia lmao what’s wrong with the world
If I need to prove something stupid and immoral, and it relies on the assumption that 2+2=5, then 2+2=4 is woke propaganda. Simple as.
