Wikipedia verliert die Herausforderung des UK Safety Act, Sorgen, es muss die Benutzer -IDs | überprüfen | Richter warf Anspruch, sagte aber, Großbritannien darf Wikipedia -Operationen nicht „wesentlich behindern“.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/wikipedia-loses-uk-safety-act-challenge-worries-it-will-have-to-verify-user-ids/
Von ControlCAD
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On the upside all the „Women from my area“ who wanted to meet me think I moved to Dublin and followed me there.
Make Google et al pay for any solution, people don’t donate to Wikipedia so it can be „summary slopped“ by AI but is is anyway.
I cannot put my anger at the government in any way that won’t get me banned so I will simply say bastards.
Would be fun if wikipedia just shut down thair site for the UK theres 0 reason they should need to request ID
I don’t know, but I think there was a movie. Shouldn’t be very popular about the British government, where one guy blow the government up, because there was like autocratic stuff. I don’t know. It’s not a famous movie at all, but I needed to think about this 🧐
Internet, this great deposit of knowledge that I used to learn to play 3 instruments and many other practical skills is getting eaten alive in front of our own eyes. What a shame, what a God damn shame
I fucking hate headlines like these. No, Wikipedia did not lose the challenge.
What the judge actually stated, was that Wikipedia could bring the issue back to court should Ofcom classify the entity as breaking the OSA.
From the article:
The court disagreed with Wikimedia’s claim that the system is illogical, saying that „the claimants have not identified any basic flaw in the logic or reasoning that Ofcom applied, and which officials approved, and the Secretary of State accepted… The fact that the criteria may capture some services that do not give rise to viral dissemination does not mean that they are irrational.“
Although the court dismissed Wikimedia’s challenge, it could intervene later if the UK classifies Wikipedia as Category 1. A Category 1 classification for Wikipedia „would have to be justified as proportionate if it were not to amount to a breach of the right to freedom of expression… It is, however, premature to rule on that now. Neither party has sought a ruling as to whether Wikipedia is a Category 1 service… If Ofcom decides that Wikipedia is not a Category 1 service, then no further issue will arise.“
The Wikimedia Foundation said today it was hoping to obtain „immediate legal protections for Wikipedia“ with its challenge to the categorization regulations but is glad that „the Court’s ruling emphasized the responsibility of Ofcom and the UK government to ensure Wikipedia is protected as the OSA [Online Safety Act] is implemented.“