[Wikimedia-l] Solving the China censorship problem

Nathan nawrich at gmail.com
Sat Jun 8 21:27:16 UTC 2013


I have no idea what you are trying to say. Perhaps others are having
the same problem and that is why they haven't replied since you posted
this yesterday? Who are we asking what? How would transcoding the
stoplist stop censorship?

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:28 PM, James Salsman <jsalsman at gmail.com> wrote:
> If we transcoded the stoplist would we still trigger censorship in China?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Suggestions/Archive_20#Mentioning_Wikipedia_on_Chinese_Skype_triggers_surveillance
>
> All centralized authorities engage in misguided attempts to impose content
> restrictions on what they percieve as threatening. Asking others for their
> opinions on how to counteract these mistakes is an integral part of
> building reference material in general, not just encyclopedias.
>
> I see no better solution than to institute such requests.
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