On 11/28/05, stevertigo vertigosteve@yahoo.com wrote:
(Appears that I mispelled "informashion" in the subject.)
Well, you correctly mention China and its quite proper to focus a great deal of energy on their restrictions on information and communication. (Do they block Wikipedia because of communication or information reasons?).
We don't know.
In that regard, the esteemed founder took a wisely netural and non-provocative course. In a country where there is no established freedom of speech, it may not be polite to assume that arguements based on local free speech concepts are valid over there. The UK however has a substantial English-speaking population, and likewise a tradition of emulating and deferring to American concepts of personal liberty etc.
Erm no we don't. We don't have a history of deferring to anyone.
The current case is of course an important and interesting anomaly, and its a good thing to see that Wikipedias users have used WP:ITN to properly feature an important story that American media has left alone, and which UK media lack the liberty to properly investigate.
We don't know that there are other posible reasons for the offcial secrets act kicking in.
Certainly I think the issue is best targeted to Wikisource, and I listed a request at Talk:Main Page to put the banner up. Im not being a hard on about it
- I think its appropriate that it generate discussion,
and it may be that as far as Public domain documents go, the Al Jazeera bombing memo might just be the most interesting source document in the world right now.
Public domain? I doubt it. Crown copyright perhaps.
-- geni