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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)
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[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

How were they caught? Did Wikipedia reveal user data to the authorities when prompted?

[–] the_trash_man@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Your IP address is shown publicly when you make edits on Wikipedia

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

What benefit is there for that to be publicly viewable?

[–] the_trash_man@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Probably helps to stop vandalism of pages.

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