These days I just say this report
- Less than 14% of World Lives in Countries with Free Press
<http://gijn.org/2013/05/07/less-than-14-of-the-world-lives-in-countries-with-a-free-press/>
It would be interesting a global comparison on how these States with
less freedom deal with Wikipedia. We could have a page with a table of
countries where Wikipedia is partially/totally blocked, among other
things.
I wonder how it will be when we begin to use Internet for real.
Tom
2013/5/8 Tomasz W. Kozlowski <tomasz(a)twkozlowski.net>et>:
Hi all,
I think it should be noted that the Russian Wikipedia is having more and
more problems with the state-maintained Internet blacklist (an idea that
they heavily opposed, and which made them go on strike last July).
Apparently, the infamous "cannabis smoking" article was put back on the said
blacklist two days ago (May 6)[1] due to a decision of the Federal Drug
Control Service which doesn't like the current wording of the article. The
blacklist now includes fifteen (15) articles related to drugs and suicide:
thirteen (13) from the Russian, and two (2) from the English Wikipedia[2].
This is the second time that the Russian Wikipedia is having trouble with
the blacklist in the past 30 days, something that has unfortunately been
missed over the DCRI controversy that occurred in the first days of April.
<shameless promotion>
For those of you who haven't heard of this yet, I prepared a short summary
at <http://twkozlowski.net/roskomnadzor-strikes-back/>; the previous episode
of the "Wikipedia vs. Roskomnadzor" story is described at
<http://twkozlowski.net/wikipedia-censorship-attempts/>.
</shameless promotion>
I'm quite sure that it is a mere coincidence that the Russian and French
controversies occurred around the same time, but it's nevertheless a bit
worrying to have to watch our communities being forced to edit the contents
of articles to please the authorities & take them off blacklists.
== References ==
* [1]
<http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130507/181016379/Wikipedia-Cannabis-Article-Put-Back-on-Russian-Blacklist.html>
* [2]
http://tiny.cc/e7urww
-- Tomasz
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