Erik Moeller wrote:
The only forms of censorship Wikipedia should
abide by are those demanded
by United States law (or the respective local
equivalents for the
international Wikipedias).
I would amend this only in saying that I think
international
wikipedians should of course follow the law in their
own country --
I'd hate to think of us taking up a collection for a
fund to help a
fellow wikipedian in Iran or North Korea who has
been imprisoned for
writing an NPOV article on some topic that is
suppressed there.
But there is no need for
kr.wikipedia.org (Korean
wikipedia) to be
concerned, as an institution, for Korean law.
I suppose there might be a difficult decision to be
made at some
point, if -- for example -- France tried to block
wikipedia because
they didn't approve of something we've published (as
in the case of
Yahoo). Do we follow French law, so as to at least
reach the French
with as much NPOV as we can, or do we refuse, and
trust the French
people to find a way around the ban?
Imho, better trust us to have imagination and to find
ways to turn around things.
In France, I would say the toughest is not the law,
the toughest are (is ?) the barriers people build
themselves thinking of the law.
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