On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, I am quite appalled by the article. Whether one wants to see something positive in pirating or not, the Wikimedia servers are not meant for this purpose (for good reasons). Breaking rules and taking abuse of an opportunity is not a goal by itself. Kind regards Ziko
Call it what you want, but the world is changed when ordinary people who are just trying to do ordinary things
have a roadblock put in front of them. This is that kind of thing, and it's the "revolution" power of the distributed internet. We can shut them down, but Angolans are going to find another way to do the very things that those with full access to the internet take for granted. As Jason says, we should take great caution and give deep thought before taking a binary side.
Oh, and I'm not condoning the behavior or use of Wikimedia servers, but I do think that the entire situation is much more nuanced than the simplicity of "that's wrong."