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TIL in Saudi Arabia, a Wikipedia editor has been sentenced to 32 years of imprisonment just because of editing Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by hossein@lemmy.sdf.org to c/til@lemmy.ca

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[–] Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just the other day i was on a Canadian gov website looking for information and they linked to american research and the links where dead because the US took down the webpages

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's a lesson for us Canadians in here somewhere, I can't quite put my finger on it...

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Make archives of any important links you intend to reference, because you can't assume the link will be valid tomorrow?

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's a good start.