On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Seb35 <seb35wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Le lundi 10 mars 2014 21:03:20 (CET), Yuri
<yuri(a)rawbw.com> a écrit :
On 03/10/2014 11:30, Seb35 wrote:
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>> Another point of view is that the knowledge doesn't (shouldn't) depend
>> in any way of the local government -- possibly it can be viewed differently
>> from a culture to another but that's a cultural question not related to
>> censorship.
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I understand your intention with this system, but I find it's not a good
response to the problem; I find a better response is to encourage and help
the free speech associations, like what was done during SOPA/PIPA.
I absolutely agree with your sentiment, as I'm sure most do, but I'm
willing to challenge the English Wikipedia SOPA/PIPA blackout as a good
example. The community took its content hostage (IMO :) ) in order to prove
a point to the US Congress, despite the English Wikipedia serving the
world. We've had two years to learn since SOPA/PIPA with other communities.
I spoke about it at Wikimania 2012 in a panel discussion and I still don't
think that reaction was appropriate.
Knowledge is, as you said, not dependent on government. I don't think the
WMF (spoken as a volunteer) or Wikimedians should support community
responses to censorship with censorship ourselves. We've had two years to
learn since SOPA/PIPA with other communities. Sorry, Yuri, I understand
it's best intentions, but education is the magic bullet.
--
~Keegan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan