On 1 January 2012 14:50, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 1 January 2012 14:05, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It's not just the freedom to know things,
it's the freedom to share
your knowledge. Both are important.
Yes. Though we quite definitely don't provide a platform for any
comer. The freedom to share your knowledge is the freedom to say
2+2=4; that freedom is well-known. Freedom to know things is not so
well known.
We are pretty open when it comes to sharing knowledge. It's sharing
opinion that we are less accepting of.
The freedom to share knowledge may be well-known, but it doesn't
always actually exist. Wikipedia (as well as sites like Twitter and
Facebook) play an important role in places where that freedom doesn't
exist.