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On 20 July 2022, due to the refusal of Wikipedia to remove the articles about the Russian-Ukrainian war, Roskomnadzor ordered search engines to mark Wikipedia as a violator of Russian laws. [96] [97] On 1 November 2022, the Wikimedia Foundation was fined 2 million rubles by a Russian court for not deleting two articles on Russian Wikipedia. [98]
The issue of blocking is a two way street: Wikipedia could, for example, say absolutely "is not censored" and allow all sorts of disgusting or offensive media to be displayed in its articles. It would then conceivably be blocked in most parts of the world, regardless of what value it had in terms of encyclopedic content.
Censorship on Wikipedia is formally against policy, and in fact the English Wikipedia frequently resists external requests to remove information. This is frequently taken as an indication that the site is free, crowdsourced, and offers a neutral point of view to which any editor can contribute.
Wikipedia:Sexual content; Wikipedia:Censorship issue; Wikipedia:Offensive material; Wikipedia:Spam blacklist, websites that are blacklisted from Wikipedia; MediaWiki:Bad image list, images that are blacklisted from Wikipedia; WP:INAPPROPRIATE, various types of content that have been deemed inappropriate for Wikipedia
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Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet. Censorship is most often applied to specific internet domains (such as Wikipedia.org, for example) but exceptionally may extend to all Internet resources located outside the jurisdiction of the censoring state.
Mark Bernstein (Марк Израйлевич Бернштейн), a Belarusian editor of the Russian Wikipedia, was detained on 11 March 2022 for violating the Russian 2022 war censorship laws by editing Wikipedia articles about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and sentenced to 15 days detention and three years of restricted freedom.
Censorship is often used to impose moral values on society, as in the censorship of material considered obscene. English novelist E. M. Forster was a staunch opponent of censoring material on the grounds that it was obscene or immoral, raising the issue of moral subjectivity and the constant changing of moral values.