"The Wikimedia Foundation shares the UK government’s commitment to promoting online environments where everyone can safely participate. However, if enforced on Wikipedia..."
"The Wikimedia Foundation is not bringing a general challenge to the OSA as a whole, not even to the existence of the Category 1 duties themselves."
"We do not dispute the need for sensible online regulation."
Great to see those who support these regulations facing the consequences.
> According to İFÖD, Turkish court orders led to the blocking of 59 accounts at the internet service provider level. Separately, Bluesky voluntarily made 13 accounts and one post inaccessible in Turkey, likely in response to legal pressure.
The posts are still accessible to everyone on Bluesky who doesn't have their location set to Turkey. Bluesky uses a labeling system to hide the posts with a warning for people in Turkey and it's only hidden for them.
Most knowledgeable Bluesky users I've spoken to don't believe there was any type of ISP level block and that's a misunderstanding by the author of that article.
> Abrego Garcia’s case has generated a national furor after the Trump administration acknowledged it had erroneously sent him to El Salvador on March 15 in violation of a 2019 court order that prohibited him from being sent to his home country because of potential persecution by a local gang.
I have a trade deficit with my local grocery store, I buy goods from them every week with a high sales tax tariff. But they don't import anything from me! I'm now implementing a blanket 100% base tariff on all grocery stores in the world.
Argh, this isn’t how anything works. Do you think that EU products are VAT-exempt or something?
Also, I mean, realistically most stuff that Europe buys from the US isn’t _final consumer products_; the VAT gets applied further down the chain. I’m struggling to think of a major US import that _is_ a final consumer product. Some alcohol, I suppose?
(Also, per the World Bank, the EU’s weighted effective tariffs (ie based on what is actually traded) are 1.39% (a little lower than the US’s pre-Trump II positioning); not sure where you got 5%.)
I just about gave myself whiplash reading that, your critical thinking is all over the place and completely disconnected with reality.
You poorly assumed bandwidth is free (like many people do it is a common mistake), which tells me everything I need to know. Take your own advice: hand in your nerd card at the front desk, and don’t even think about passing go or collecting 200.
Every request contributes to server costs. Every byte contributes to the 95/5 pricing. Wikipedia can’t afford private peering with every ISP in the world.
