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Harvard researchers found fewer instances of Wikipedia censorship after the site started encrypting all of its traffic.
"Knowledge is power," as the
old saying goes, so it's no surprise that Wikipedia—one of the largest repositories of general knowledge ever created—is a frequent target of government censorship around the world. In
Turkey, Wikipedia articles about female genitals have been banned;
Russia has censored articles about weed; in the
UK, articles about German metal bands have been blocked; in
China,
