Jimmy Wales

We would be undermining our volunteer community.

Like, it's not going to work.

It's a bad idea.

And, you know, other things, you know, like restrictions that would require us to identify users and things like that, gather data we don't gather now.

Like, basically, you know, I do try to be diplomatic a bit.

And I'm also like, you know what?

We didn't do that in China.

We didn't do that in Turkey.

We're not going to do it in your country either.

So, you know, take us as we are.

No, it's legit.

And I like that's, you know, user privacy is massively important.

Here's a funny thing that happened.

So we used to be not encrypted and now we're encrypted.

So just for most people, they may not know what that means.

So like if you visit a website and it's HTTP, then that's in the clear.

Anybody spying on your connection can see what you're reading and all of that.

HTTPS, like when you go to your bank, they can see that you're talking to us, but you can't see which page you're reading or what the content is.

So when we moved to HTTPS many years ago now, we thought this is going to be interesting because at the time, a lot of countries were they were often filtering out political opposition and things like that.

So there was a lot of that going on.