On 5/13/06, Prasad J <prasad59(a)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