Censorship of Wikipedia by governments has occurred widely in countries including (but not limited to) China, Iran, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Uzbekistan, and Venezuela. Some instances are examples of widespread Internet censorship in general that includes Wikipedia content. Others are indicative of measures to prevent the viewing of specific content deemed offensive. The duration of different blocks has varied from hours to years.
Or it means that I’m sick of people letting “democracies” slowly turn into dictatorships because “we’re not north korea so don’t complain”.
Governments using their employees (=> taxpayer money) to try to alter information on media that should be independent sounds a lot like censorship.
Sure, there is much worse, but it doesn’t mean that everything is fine.
Someone editing a Wikipedia page is exactly the same as not being able to say something under the penalty of torture or death /s
Dude count yourself lucky that the worst thing that happened to you or anyone you know is a politician telling an intern to vandalize Wikipedia.
Please quote where I said that it’s the same.
I love how when it comes to subjects like that the only argument is “it’s worse elsewhere so stop caring”.
Caring about such a “small thing” (is it, even?) is how you don’t end up switching from the first half of your example to the second half.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_imprisoned_for_editing_Wikipedia
That’s a tiny bit different from vandalizing a Wikipedia page.
A lone politician doing dumb shit on the internet has nothing to do with state sponsored censorship, let alone a drift towards a dictatorship. This is a moronic take.
When the politician is part of the government, it is the government’s responsibility.
And considering that most democracies are currently seeing a clear shift towards fascism, they do drift towards dictatorships.
Saying it’s it’s moronic doesn’t make your argument smarter.