Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years • Hacker News Board

Re: Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years

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Post by monadic2 » Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 5:18 PM UTC

CamperBob2 wrote: post #112

monadic2 wrote: post #102

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Common perception about soviet anything is generally wrong, at least in the us.

And yet, we're still here, and they're gone. I guess that's our fault, huh. It always is.

The people of the USSR are most certainly still around.

Re: Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years

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Post by rimliu » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 10:50 AM UTC

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #154

rimliu wrote: post #129

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The other side: in USSR we were not even taught about WWII. It was "The Great Patriotic War". And it was all Red Army vs. Germans.

I was taught in the Russian school system, and while it's true that main emphasis is on the eastern front, but the rest of the world is broadly represented. I have never meant a person that was not aware of the other fronts, and did not know at least the broad strokes of France/normandy/etc.

Well, the time I am talking about was the last decade of the USSR. Access to information was way more limited then.

Re: Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years

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Post by AdamJacobMuller » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 2:24 AM UTC

GuardianCaveman wrote: post #126

AdamJacobMuller wrote: post #124

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> hosting content on their own servers that offends you It's not about offense in the parent comment, it's about theft. I see this as a reasonable response, given no additional context.

Yes but there is all of the collateral damage of other hosted sites who did nothing.

Which presumably impacts the hosting company's bottom line, encouraging them to remove the offending content.