The related court case is ongoing: https://www.barandbench.com/news/delhi-high-court-flags-wiki...

Why is Wikipedia structured in such a way that the Delhi High Court has any say in what I as a european can view on en.wikipedia.org?

We can't let the internet be governed by the lowest common denominator of legal decisions.

Never heard of ANI. But now I have: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_News_International

If India blocks Wikipedia, then it will mainly badly affect Indian citizens.

What's the point of this block on English Wikipedia (language spoken by 11% of Indians) when the following alleged "defamatory information" is still available on Hindi Wikipedia (language spoken by 40% of Indians):

"ANI has been accused of acting as a propaganda tool for the current central government, distributing content from a vast network of fake news websites, and misreporting events on several occasions."[1]

Hindi Wikipedia also addresses the lawsuit between ANI and Wikipedia in the same article as this alleged "defamatory information" instead of having a translated version of the English Wikipedia ANI v Wikimedia case.[2][3]

Bengali Wikipedia (language spoken by 9% of Indians) is a stub article that still manages to make similar remarks to Hindi Wikipedia.[4]

Telugu Wikipedia (language spoken by 8% of Indians) has favorable coverage of ANI but still addresses the lawsuit between ANI and Wikipedia.[5]

Malayalam Wikipedia (language spoken by 3% of Indians) just has a stub article that says nothing much.[6]

edit: Answer appears to be "On 14 October, Delhi High Court justices Manmohan and Tushar Rao Gedela objected to the creation of an English Wikipedia article about the defamation case, saying the article "disclos[ed] something about a sub-judice matter" and "will have to be taken down", and scheduled review for 16 October. On 16 October, the court stated that "Accordingly, in the interim, this Court directs that the pages on Wikipedia pertaining to the single judge as well as discussion of the observations of division bench be taken down or deleted within 36 hours".".[7][8]

[1] https://hi-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%E0%A4%8F%E0%...

[2] https://hi-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%E0%A4%8F%E0%...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_News_International_vs._W...

[4] https://bn-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%E0%A6%8F%E0%...

[5] https://te-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%E0%B0%8F%E0%...

[6] https://ml-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%E0%B4%8F%E0%...

[7] Deleted article: https://archive.md/XIxZv#selection-2289.0-2351.1

[8] Deleted article: https://archive.md/CcA6Q

Wikipedia is used and abused routinely as a political attack engine -- by every political party. It's a mess and shouldn't be trusted for any social or political subject.

Up until this point I had never heard about ANI. Now I believe it’s a propaganda tool used to spread fake news. Great job.

Can someone smarter than me explain how it can be that it is blocked for me despite being in North America?

The problem presents the solution with a slight change of emphasis: Resistance is futile? We •will• adapt!

They shouldn’t comply on principle. But this trend of global blocks is picking up. See Australia versus X.