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The issue of censorship on Wikipedia continues to be debated, although for the most part, the concept that Wikipedia is not censored holds strong dominance [citation needed]. On Wikipedia, the general concept is that concepts should not be censored, and that media which illustrates such concepts should likewise not be censored, if it has ...
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]
Wikipedia editors demand the right to share knowledge, protect the privacy of its editors especially when they are compliant with our rules, and to not endure unfair censorship. Other more specific Wikipedia articles which give context to relevant ethics and rights include Censorship of Wikipedia, Wikipedia in India, Contempt of court in India ...
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 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.
The editors of Wikipedia decide by community consensus as to what content is added. The only censorship by the community of note is the decision to blacklist certain images and restrict the visibility of various articles. Depictions of Muhammad, which cause offence to some Muslims, have not been censored.
Government censorship of Wikipedia (may come with demands of changes to Wikipedia / Wikipedia content) (See also: Help:Censorship) . Proposed countermeasures or solutions: political engagement, improving anonymous / censorship-resistant access-methods (such as creating a Tor.onion-site or an I2P eepsite and allowing VPN write access), meshnet, actively distributing Wikipedia, categorically ...
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