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Re:Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Gover... by Amulet- on Monday May 29, 2017 @07:12PM (#14442020)
The article says

Although countries like China, Thailand and Uzbekistan were still censoring part or all of Wikipedia by the time the researchers wrapped up their study

The top comment might be asking about the "were still censoring part" of the article.

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Re:Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Gover... by zeta0134 on Monday May 29, 2017 @07:22PM (#14442046)
Oh, huh! I missed that entirely, now I'm curious too. HTTPS should make that difficult, but China has been known to employ all sorts of weird shenanigans-- perhaps they're running a "trusted' MitM as part of the great firewall?

I know that certain companies (like Google and Microsoft) will actively censor themselves to continue to operate within China, but I figured Wikipedia would be against that practice on principal. Now I'm curious as to how it's done.

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Re:Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Gover... by matt4711 on Monday May 29, 2017 @08:34PM (#14442320)
I think china blocks zh.wikipedia.org but all other languages are not blocked.
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Re:Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Gover... by kalleboo on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @12:35AM (#14443020)
When I visited China a bunch of years ago, zh.wikipedia was completely blocked, and on English wikipedia, only certain articles were deadholed (tiananmen square...)
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Re:Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Gover... by Bakary on Monday May 29, 2017 @09:39PM (#14442531)
I just tested a few pages and it looks like you are right.
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Re:Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Gover... by beefsack on Monday May 29, 2017 @08:13PM (#14442223)
Nitpick: Google opted to pull out of mainland China instead of self-censoring. They moved Chinese operations to Hong Kong, but operate uncensored there.
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Re:Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Gover... by bumblebeard on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @12:10AM (#14442962)
Google was perfectly willing to self-censor in China until they were hacked by the Chinese government in 2010. That's when Google China moved to Hong Kong.

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin...

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