Wikipedia Might Shut Shop If India Passes Internet Norms
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Wikimedia’s senior communications director Anusha Alikhan told Business Insider that the company is structured by individual languages, not geographies. These rules also make it mandatory for internet companies to leverage automated tools to detect and remove any content which promotes illicit information. “The automated filtering of user uploads, either explicitly or implicitly, through short takedown times, and would severely disrupt the ability of Wikipedia to operate in India,” Alikhan added. Last month, Mozilla, GitHub, and Cloudflare had written an open letter to the government sharing their concerns with intermediary liability rules. These companies had also urged the IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad to roll back the drafted norms as it will increase censorship.
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