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>>ANewbu+(OP)
There's an opportunity for a service like CloudFlare here give people a simple toggle that manages geoblocks on legal liability factors. It's way too much for every organisation to individually track every country's laws day by day in case just by being accessible there you incur a liability. And it sounds like the UK would have just self-selected out of the list of "safe" countries.

If something like this was in widespread use it would have much more impact since countries would see whole swathes of the internet immediately go dark when they make stupid laws.

>>zmmmmm+TI1
I wish Wikipedia would take one for the team, and go dark in the UK. (And I'm in the UK).

Wouldn't work with somewhere like China, but the UK might still be capable of being shamed.

>>flir+rQ1
Wikipedia gets a lot of donations from the uk. I’m not sure how many Brits would continue putting £10-100/mo into a charity that explicitly doesn't operate in their borders.

>>OtherS+GG2
Any stats on this? I'd be surprised if the number of Brits putting £10-100/mo into Wikipedia greatly exceeds 10.

>>piker+DM2
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2023-24_Report

Best I can find

    $    132,466.01  Africa
    $  4,902,373.13  Asia
    $ 49,423,340.29  Europe
    $106,546,895.77  N.America
    $  2,509,299.46  Other
    $  6,082,217.76  Oceania
    $    944,844.22  S.America

>>tetris+jP2
It looks from another chart like 21% of revenue is recurring, so $10 million annually for Europe.

Convert that to GBP and you get about £7.5 million.

Figure that the UK accounts for about 15% of the European economy and assume it contributes to Wikipedia at about an equal share.

That's about £1.125 million in estimated annual recurring contributions from the UK.

You said 10-100/mo, so let's assume £55/mo or £660/year as the mean.

That would be about 1,700 Brits, a surprising number.

>>piker+bQ2
I'm surprised you're reiterating surprise: you were off by two orders of magnitude, and the initial surprise only had purpose as a rhetorical device, it wasn't based on anything (why is > 10 surprising? 70M people in UK...)