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TIL in Saudi Arabia, a Wikipedia editor has been sentenced to 32 years of imprisonment just because of editing Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by hossein@lemmy.sdf.org to c/til@lemmy.ca

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[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

[…] It’s important for it to be public, otherwise bad actors can far too easily destroy the entire platform. […]

Okay, but, again, why does it need to be public? What use is there for the IP to be publicly visible to anyone except the moderators/admins? What can an average user do with that information in the context of editing/improving the content on Wikipedia?