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		dreamcompiler 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Ac... If they don't geoblock UK visitors then every person known to be involved with the operation of wikipedia potentially becomes an international fugitive and if they ever land on UK soil (or perhaps even Commonwealth soil), they could be jailed. Not a fun way to live.

lawtalkinghuman 4 months ago | [–]

[citation needed] because that’s not how the OSA works.

account42 4 months ago | [–]

The UK would only get away with such an arrest if the US would allow it, in which case Wikipedia is already fucked.

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