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TIL in Saudi Arabia, a Wikipedia editor has been sentenced to 32 years of imprisonment just because of editing Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by hossein@lemmy.sdf.org to c/til@lemmy.ca

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I have bad news for you

[–] Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just the other day i was on a Canadian gov website looking for information and they linked to american research and the links where dead because the US took down the webpages

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

There's a lesson for us Canadians in here somewhere, I can't quite put my finger on it...

[–] msprout@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't worry, I'm sure the Supreme Court will strike it down once it starts getting abused.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

~/s~ here....think you dropped this