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Could someone ever take down Wikipedia?
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this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2025
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Yes they could in several ways but not without causing massive upraw.
They could put financial pressure on Wikipedia by making payment processors stop working with them like they did with Wikileaks.
They could get ICANN to pull their domain. (I doubt ICANN will do it though)
They could tell ISPs to stop resolving Wikipedia's domains on their name servers.
Authoritarians don't care about what the hoi polloi think.