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hossein@lemmy.sdf.org to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish ·
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TIL in Saudi Arabia, a Wikipedia editor has been sentenced to 32 years of imprisonment just because of editing Wikipedia

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TIL in Saudi Arabia, a Wikipedia editor has been sentenced to 32 years of imprisonment just because of editing Wikipedia

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List of people imprisoned for editing Wikipedia - Wikipedia
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  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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    I have bad news for you

    • dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works
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      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

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

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          Make archives of any important links you intend to reference, because you can’t assume the link will be valid tomorrow?

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            That’s a good start.

    • msprout@lemmy.world
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      :(

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

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          /s here…think you dropped this

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