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    hossein@lemmy.sdf.org to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish ·
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    TIL in Saudi Arabia, a Wikipedia editor has been sentenced to 32 years of imprisonment just because of editing Wikipedia

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    TIL in Saudi Arabia, a Wikipedia editor has been sentenced to 32 years of imprisonment just because of editing Wikipedia

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    hossein@lemmy.sdf.org to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish ·
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    List of people imprisoned for editing Wikipedia - Wikipedia
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      I have bad news for you

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        Just the other day i was on a Canadian gov website looking for information and they linked to american research and the links where dead because the US took down the webpages

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          There’s a lesson for us Canadians in here somewhere, I can’t quite put my finger on it…

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            Make archives of any important links you intend to reference, because you can’t assume the link will be valid tomorrow?

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              That’s a good start.

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        :(

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          Don’t worry, I’m sure the Supreme Court will strike it down once it starts getting abused.

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            /s here…think you dropped this

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