Dovi Jacobs wrote:
I recently stumbled upon the mailing-list discussion of the Chinese Wikinews. When I found the discussion, I couldn't believe what I was reading. Is this the Wikimedia Foundation that believes in free projects creating free content, "free" as in both "free beer" and "free speech"?
I think you're getting actual free speech confused with the paradoxical terminology used by Richard Stallman to describe software with restricted rights of use and distribution. Wikimedia supports the latter but has never supported the former. Rightly or wrongly, Wikimedia projects have been complicit in censorship of various kinds. I don't think the discussion of censorship is aided by conflating these two concepts.
-- Tim Starling