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