Jimmy Wales
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And I was like, well, OK, when we do this, we should expect we're going to get blocked in a lot of countries around the world.
No, we didn't.
And I think what it came down to is because they could no longer filter certain pages, they had a decision to make.
You can block all of Wikipedia or you can have all of Wikipedia.
And a lot of them are like, I guess we'll just have Wikipedia then, like because they know we're not radical, we're not whatever.
But that's really important because it does mean like if you are in Iran and you have questions about human sexuality and you want to read about it, like you need privacy, like you need to be able to do that anonymously.
It's really important that you can do that.
And, you know, I think what they decided was like, actually, Wikipedia is so useful, whatever, can't control everything.
That's interesting.
Well, I always joke about North Korea is like the one guy with a computer can look at anything he wants.
Right.
They've got a broader, like, yeah.
So I wouldn't say we're accessible.
I don't think so.
Just China at the moment.
Yeah.
Wow.
We've had, you know, we've had various short-term blocks and things like that we've dealt with over the years.
But, you know, that's the only one that's really right now.
Wow.