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by sitic 4121 days ago
The technical solution can not solve all problems, wikimedia plans to activate HTTPS per default for all users: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/08/01/future-https-wikimedia-...

One of the problems is that certain countries block HTTPS (e.g. China), should wikimedia effectively block all chinese users from free knowledge that wikimedia aims to provide? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia

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Thanks for the link, very interesting that it's a technical limitation for them to not enable HTTPS.

About china, maybe only the IPs from china can use HTTP, maybe only zh.wikipedia.org can use HTTP, ...

I think legal solutions are just temporary fixes, technical ones fix the root of the problem in a more generic way.