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hayleox 9 hours ago

Trying to shut down a site by going after their domain names will always be a losing battle. As long as the link on their Wikipedia article keeps being updated, it'll remain easy to access. And it would be a pretty shocking attack on free speech if a U.S. court tried to order the Wikimedia Foundation to take that down; I suspect the public response would be similar to when the movie industry tried to get the AACS encryption key taken down in the 2000s.

6thbit 9 hours ago | parent [-]

who updates wikipedia with the new domains? how do they know the new ones?

masfuerte 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They are published on the old ones. The old ones don't all get shut down simultaneously.

dnnddidiej 10 minutes ago | parent [-]

So old school! They gonna release an MCP?

JoshuaDavid 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Would be fairly easy for them to offer an onion service on which they publish the current list of domains, as one option among many, many options for distributing small strings on the internet in an uncensorable way.

6thbit 7 hours ago | parent [-]

the beauty of wikipedia as dns is its easy access, are there similarly easily accessible uncensorable ways?

JoshuaDavid 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Ideally it is common knowledge that the onion service exists, and then people can go look at the onion service and update Wikipedia based on what they see there.

zenmac 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Also onion doesn't require a domain register

mattmaroon 30 minutes ago | parent [-]

While true, most people don’t (and won’t ever) know how to use it. But enough will to keep Wikipedia updated I suppose.

gruez 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Does it matter? It's not illegal to update an article with a new domain.

mercanlIl 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes it does matter. Users need to know that the updated URL is correct and trustworthy.

tossandthrow 8 hours ago | parent [-]

This is Wikipedia.

For that type of publishing please use Encyclopedia Britannica.

You will get the url in the 2027 edition on print.