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by jrockway 2261 days ago
Why does Google censor results, but not Wikipedia? It seems like you can DMCA Wikipedia just as easily as Google.

Overall this is a nifty hack and I like it a lot. Wikipedia has an edit history, and a DNS changelog is something that is very interesting to have. People can change things and phish users of this service, of course, but with the edit log you can see when and potentially why. That kind of transparency is pretty scary to someone that wants to do something malicious or nefarious.

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Google also sells copyrighted content, Wikipedia doesn't.