Like many of the most popular websites, Wikimedia – which oversees Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons among other sites and services – publishes a transparency report in which it details commercial and governmental requests for surveillance and content removal.
But of course, Wikipedia is a wiki, meaning that the way you take something down is by editing the page, then defending your change in the comments for that page – not by asking the Lords of the Internet to get the food-coloring out of the swimming pool.
So Wikipedia's transparency report is something of a joy. I mean, how can you read this: “From July to December of 2017, we received 343 requests to alter or remove project content, seven of which came from government entities. Once again, we granted zero of these requests” and not rejoice?
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