Anthony DiPierro wrote:
I think people seem to be missing the point. Sure, Baidu might be in technical violation of the GFDL, in which case pretty much every fork/mirror in the world is in technical violation of it. I was more focussed on the fact that "entries on Baidupedia, the service from Nasdaq-listed Baidu.com launched last month, are censored by the Chinese Government".
Indeed.
This is especially horrible because the real Wikipedia *isn't accessible in China* to the average internet user who doesn't jump through a bunch of technical hoops.
Actually it was accessible for the average user until a day and a half ago, via wikipedia.cnblog.org, a proxy which was even listed in some of the search engines, including Baidu itself. The launch of this Wikipedia fork seems to have coincided with a crackdown on various firewall evasion techniques.
-- Tim Starling