On a related note, this has appeared on *The Economic Times* :
" Five reasons why India can't censor the Internet" http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/five-reasons-why-india-can...
"*Yes, Internet content has the permanence and public-impact potential that a phone call does not, but equally, it lends itself brilliantly to self-regulation. * * * *3. Peer review works: Wikipedia is the best example. Who could have imagined that a user-created encyclopedia could be so objective, and comprehensive? Yes, anyone can go in and edit anything (barring entries like "Kapil Sibal", which have been locked due to vandalism!). * * * *If you make an inappropriate change, someone will come in and correct it.*"
Regards Tinu Cherian
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.ghoda@gmail.com> wrote:
This is basically restriction of freedom of expression and it will hurt Wikipedia much more than it hurts Twitter or Facebook.
On 07/12/2011, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik.lak@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:06, Achal Prabhala aprabhala@gmail.com
wrote:
fyi
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal Wants to Censor social Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:02:10 +0530 From: Achal Prabhala aprabhala@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List < foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
I just want to write that there was a community member who seemed to be
of
the notion ImageFilter is the technical fix for what Kapil Sibal is proposing(without probably understanding / knowing much) and connecting
the
two distinct things. Yes Sibal showed some images as examples for his support, but what Sibal means is much more and prescreening of every byte of user generated content. Please tell that member that linking up 2 different things is not a good idea. ImageFilter needs to be discussed
with
its own merits / demerits and this thing that Sibal proposes means much more than images.
If at all the legislation comes and is being enforced, I think Wikimedia projects are better equipped *technically* than other social media sites cited to support the local laws(so that we need not be banned if that
goes
to that extreme) with a combination of ImageFilter / FlaggedRevisions and some more customizations, but thats not where we would like to go. Community is already not so strong and needs support, there is so much
work
to do in increasing content, censorship will cripple Indian community if such a thing happens.
There are many questions that the communities need to decide as to submit to Indian laws (if at all they come through) and I hope the situation
does
not arise for us to take those tough calls.
PS : I would not like to post / join foundation-l myself since it has
high
SNR IMO.
-- Regards Srikanth.L
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Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
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