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When Wikipedia ran on the HTTP protocol, governments were able to block specific articles. However, in 2011 Wikipedia began also running on HTTPS, and in 2015 switched over to solely HTTPS. [1] Since then, the only censorship options have been to block one of the entire Wikipedias for a particular language or prosecute editors. The switch has ...
General censorship occurs in a variety of different media, including speech, books, music, films, and other arts, the press, radio, television, and the Internet for a variety of claimed reasons including national security, to control obscenity, pornography, and hate speech, to protect children or other vulnerable groups, to promote or restrict ...
Television censorship is the censorship of television content, either through the excising of certain frames or scenes, or outright banning of televisions in their entirety. Television censorship typically occurs as a result of political or moral objections to a television's content; controversial content subject to censorship include the ...
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.
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.
Censorship by country collects information on censorship, Internet censorship, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and human rights by country and presents it in ...
Wikipedia aims to be a free resource for everyone, but what use is it to anyone if it is blocked? 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.
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