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Wikipedia's privacy at risk under UK Online Safety Act, legal challenge to be heard (www.neowin.net)
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The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, is due to challenge the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) in the High Court of Justice in London on July 22 and 23. It wants to challenge the categorization regulations that would classify Wikipedia as a Category 1 service, which was designed for large, commercial social media platforms in mind, not volunteer, non-profit encyclopedias.

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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah they're very happy to use banners to raise money they don't really need. Maybe use them to affect policy?

I guess they'd sort of be better off being apolitical but when it is an existential risk I feel like people would be ok with it.