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the court ordered Wikipedia to disclose who made these allegedly defamatory edits to the ANI page

… Isn’t the edit history public, though? They should be able to determine the IPs/users who are responsible for the edits.

I don’t know how the Indian legal system works, but then if necessary you would try to compel Wikipedia to turn over contact information for those users, as with a subpoena in US law.

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After looking over the article, Wikipedia has turned over user info to that effect. ANI is mad because they weren’t allowed to edit their own page, essentially, which is disallowed on Wikipedia in general because of bias.

The hearing began in July after ANI petitioned the court, saying it had tried to change the allegedly defamatory material on Wikipedia but its edits were not accepted.

The ANI page was put under “extended confirmed protection” - a Wikipedia feature used to stop vandalism or abuse - where only users who have already done a certain number of edits can make changes to a page.

You’re kidding me… I was discussing whether his actions meet the definition of a crime and therefore whether the established legal punishment would be appropriate. As others have commented he IS an American citizen (from 2002) and there’s no question of jurisdiction here. Although treason is a very high bar (despite mounting evidence) and it is much more likely that he could be got for sedition under the Smith Act or something.

I disagree with your decision. I think your effort would be better spent focusing on the folks actually advocating for vigilantism.

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If it’s any comfort (it might not be), a few hundred thousand out of like 8 billion is a pretty small percentage. It’s troubling that it evaded the law for long enough to accumulate that many users in one place, though :/

well, if whatever code automatically turns plaintext links into hyperlinks isn’t Markdown related, then it’s still the instance or client you’re using that has the problem. before they edited the trailing space in, it was working correctly on my end. You should consider looking into it and filing a bug.

That would seem to be a failure of your client’s or instance’s Markdown parsing. The link works correctly from Mbin.

Eliminating bullshit on the costs side of the equation is also important work that should be done.

It’s worth noting that profit margins for farmers are a LOT thinner on average than the limits I spitballed above. You can’t quite get from raw prices to profit margins directly, but the further away you get from the farmers, the more bullshit there seems to be.

Profit limits of 10-20% across all sorts of essential industries would be good, I think.

Have some kind of progressive tax incentive where if your profit comes in under the limit you get a tax credit, and if your profit is over the limit you pay higher and higher taxes until it’s quickly not worth it anymore.

I don’t know the details, but some system where responsible businesses are better off overall than exploitative ones…

You’re exactly right! Now I’m kicking myself for the term escaping me in the moment. :)

I wasn’t confused by it; I just think it could be further improved.

Now this is a headline whose grammar I take issue with

Reads like “the truth (which humiliated Putin) wants to hide”

It should be

The Uncensored Truth That Putin, Humiliated, Wants to Hide

This is good news. I hope that it will translate into some effective action.

Edit: Misleading headline. This is an advisory opinion, which appears to be non-binding. I don’t think “ruling” is entirely appropriate.

In general, advisory opinions are not binding, but may inform the development of international law. According to the ICJ website, advisory opinions:

“carry great legal weight and moral authority. They are often an instrument of preventive diplomacy and have peace-keeping virtues. Advisory opinions also, in their way, contribute to the elucidation and development of international law and thereby to the strengthening of peaceful relations between States.”