[WikiEN-l] Tearing down the Chinese Firewall

[Anthony DiPierro]

On 5/13/06, Prasad J <prasad59 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree with Timwi, encouraging Chinese citizens to break the laws of
> their country is probably not the right thing to do, even though such
> forms of censorship seem unfair. Also, what if the Chinese authorities
> manage to track down those who break their censorship laws? Let us not
> forget what the government does to  "dissidents" in China. And what is
> the press gets hold of this? The issue of Wikipedia and Chinese
> Government censorship has been in the news. If we start encouraging
> Chinese Wikipedians to break the law, it will only mean bad publicity
> for the Foundation.

I'm not sure we should be *encouraging* Chinese citizens to break any
laws, but I'm fully behind supporting those that choose to do so.

As for bad publicity for the Foundation, I'm not a member of the
Foundation and never made any claim to speak for them (not that I
accept that it would be bad publicity, mind you).  I do feel that this
discussion is "beyond the scope of this mailing list" though.  If
you'd prefer to send any responses to me off-list, please do so.
Another place you can reach me is at
http://jnanabase.org/index.php/User_talk:Anthony, although I don't log
on there as often as I used to.

Anthony