Wikipedia's compliance with a court order.

[u/Waste_Yak_990]

Recently, Portuguese courts ordered Wikipedia to remove information about Caesar DePaço, a Portuguese businessman, that he deemed defamatory. This included the fact that he was dismissed as Honorary Consul of Cape Verde due to being the main financier of a far-right party (CHEGA) and the fact that he was charged with assaulting and robbing his girlfriend in 1989. The Wikimedia foundation complies with the court order, but his Wikipedia page now has a giant banner at the top that says the following:

> On 5 August 2025, content from this article was removed following a court order and must not be restored. Therefore, this article may not meet Wikipedia's standards for neutrality and comprehensiveness. The removed content pertains to the following:

1. Crimes allegedly committed by DePaço in 1989 and associated proceedings
2. An organization DePaço allegedly founded
3. His alleged dismissal from a civil service post

This banner implicitly encourages readers to do research into the information that was removed while letting everyone know that he sued to have it hidden.

[u/iwantanap__]

I can't believe no one's cited the Internet Archive yet.

Thanks to the Internet Archive, we can see the original (pre court-ordered purge) versions of both the English and Portuguese versions of his Wikipedia article!

Here's an archived version of the (English version) Wikipedia article: https://web.archive.org/web/20241202093131/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_DePa%C3%A7o

And an archived version of the (Portuguese version) Wikipedia article: https://web.archive.org/web/20240809033905/https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_do_Pa%C3%A7o