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Jason C. McDonald • Edited

No other social media firms have such a contentious reputation with the governments.

Do you mean like Wikipedia and the Internet Archive, to name two examples?

I think our disagreements are at a fundamental ethical level, though, so the rest of this isn't really worth debating further.

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Yufan Lou

Wikipedia

Wikipedia does not have as contentious a reputation with governments as Facebook, and it does not continue to engage with governments on contentious terms.

Wikipedia does not have a reputation of inciting revolutions. It documents revolutions, but does not create them. China has blocked Facebook since 2009 following deadly riots in Xinjiang, linking Facebook to the riots. China has blocked the Chinese Wikipedia since 2015, then other languages in 2019. Only the latter got widely reported because Wikimedia Foundation published an announcement.

The Wikimedia Foundation does not directly engage with foreign governments which block access to Wikipedia, as far as I know. Only Jimmy Wales went to a Chinese conference on the Internet in his personal capacity. Even though Wikipedia is large, the Wikimedia Foundation is small and powerless against the power of a foreign state.