Because they thought it was too ‘woke’ and wanted to burn the books.
FWIW you can download it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
Edit: Lots of good answers. When I ask the question I mean the main site. We would all have access to it. Hell I downloaded the text yesterday on two computers. I mean could the masses ever be denied access to wikipedia in the only form they are used to?
I’m sure the government can do anything they want… but a lot of people have it backed up including myself
Yeah, I assume if they took down Wikipedia itself then hundreds of copies would pop up all over the place, probably hosted elsewhere, and one of them would become the primary replacement over time.
Media might be lost to some extent, but I doubt there’s any way you can take the text/information/metadata off the internet at all, and that’s the most important aspect.
Unlikely. They have data centers in several locations all over the world, and there are countless backup copies downloaded onto personal devices everywhere.
Probably same would happen as with TPB.
The most likely to happen is that the current administration starts censoring internet content within the US. The information would be deemed dangerous, or whatever other justification they think would work. The site itself would still exist, we just wouldn’t have legal access to it any longer.
