[contravariant]

If possible it would be better to let India block wikipedia themselves, that way the government doesn't get to shift blame on Wikipedia. Whichever way it goes the government has a lot of control over the narrative and it's a lot harder for them to hide that it is their decision to block wikipedia completely.

[Self-Perfection]

Governments do not hesitate to blatantly shift blame. For instance, Russian internet censorship agency blocks YouTube for a couple of months and they still pretend that it is Google's technical issue:

https://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/23/10/2024/6718fc469...

[startupsfail]

I’m a bit surprised Google is still serving at Russia, are they doing it to avoid loosing browser and search market share? They could not be making any money on advertising there, I assume?

[seppel]

> They could not be making any money on advertising there, I assume?

When they show an advertisement of, say, some asian company to a russian user, they are still making money, aren't they?

[spartach]

They just don't show any ads to Russian users (if the user doesn't use a VPN to the outer world).

[brainzap]

good answer