Comment by idorosen
2 days ago
To all of the commenters recommending that Wikipedia block UK visitors: This is incredibly short-sighted in the age of LLMs, where Wikipedia does not need to exist in a country in order for the benefit of its existence to be felt. Such a move would likely just drive people to obtain dubious regurgitations of Wikipedia’s (freely available) content via their favorite LLM chatbot, in my opinion.
Option 1: enabling "dubious regurgitations of information"
Option 2: enabling draconian abuse of power, violation of privacy, and mass surveillance
The point was that Wikipedia blocking the UK today would not have the same effect as blocking it a decade ago during previous similar censorship attempts. It would likely be less effective.
However, those aren’t not the only two options. Wikipedia could block editing from the UK, or it could simply not comply and wait for an enforcement action.
What recourse would the UK have in any case of such an enforcement action if the law or regulation Wikipedia faces does not exist in the US, where Wikipedia is ostensibly based if it removed all financial or physical presence from the UK?
How is the state of the art as far as blocking LLMs from accessing a site?