Relevant Article: Asian News International sues Wikipedia for “Defamation” and Archived version
Apparently, Delhi High Court asked Wikipedia to disclose information about editors of said article, which made some controversial edits on the Wikipedia ANI page.
The article states that Wikipedia failed to provide said information.
From the article
Wikipedia explained that the delay had been caused as the platform didn’t have any physical presence in India.
“It is not a question of the defendant not being an entity in India. We will close your business transactions here," the judge said in a stark warning.
ANI asks for removal of said “controversial” edits and wants ₹20000000, ~$240k from Wikipedia.
From the related article:
2022-10-10: Ayurvedic Medicine Manufacturers of India filed petitions to the Supreme Court, saying that an article on Wikipedia about them, as defamatory. To that, the bench said, “You can edit the Wikipedia article…” and that they could use “any other remedy available to them”.
Additional information from me:
- IP Addresses of people in Talk and the times of edit are available freely on the Wikipedia page.
- Wikipedia SHOULD NOT be expected to have the ability to trace people on the internet any more than that.
The Indian Express - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)
Information for The Indian Express:
MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: Medium - Factual Reporting: Mixed - India
Wikipedia about this sourceInternet Archive - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)
Information for Internet Archive:
MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: Mostly Factual - United States of America
Wikipedia about this sourceSearch topics on Ground.News
https://web.archive.org/web/20240714172651/https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-law/why-has-ani-slapped-a-defamation-case-against-wikipedia-9443391/
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-law/why-has-ani-slapped-a-defamation-case-against-wikipedia-9443391/Wikipedia vs Delhi HC Judge’s Actions
Wikipedia explained that the delay had been caused as the platform didn’t have any physical presence in India.
- Wikipedia here, explaining that they have a limited ability and asking HC to be reasonable.
“We will close your business transactions here”
- Judge, realising they are showing weakness, increasing threat level.
Current actions vs Past actions
- Refer “Relevant Article” in the post.
- Low impact companies asked Supreme Court and were shot down
- Company with a high standing and a potential political backing, asks the High Court and gets full attention
- On top of that, Delhi HC Judge decides to move to “Contempt of Court”, making it much harder for Wikipedia, in case they move Supreme Court (SC) in the future, for a re-trial
- I feel like this would have gone differently had ANI gone to SC from the beginning.
Writing this part separately in a comment, because I understand this includes my bias.
Also, if I don’t interact with any comments later, please excuse me. GOI might have stopped my internet, just for posting this, because they can.
If you want to see some real level of mental degeneracy, you should check out the edit and discuss pages for any Wikipedia articles involving Modi or the BJP.
It’s literally like 2 mods keeping information up and preventing a wave of salty nationalist trying to edit in propaganda.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:2002_Gujarat_riots&action=history
I usually try to stay away from any of those.
Just that this time, they decided to use the legal system to suppress Wikipedia, which is why I thought, this needed to be shared.Normally, I don’t even care about checking Wikipedia for controversial topics.