Robin Shannon (robin.shannon@gmail.com) [050503 02:28]:
On 5/3/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
And never mind the Chinese speakers in Taiwan, the US, the rest of the world ... Let's imagine the UK government became ridiculously censorious. Would the US-based Wikimedia then adopt the same attitude to English language projects? Of course it wouldn't.
This isnt quite a fair comparision. It ignores the massive difference in population. Britain is about 50 million people out of over a billion english speakers. Mainland China is over a billion chinese speakers out of a populaiton of one point something billion speakers.
My point is that rather than shying away from it, I think the "FUCK THAT" in response would be audible from orbit.
- d.