Oh, the mention of 'idiot' on that page
is vandalism (no, I haven't done
it - yet)? I thought we had a very interesting discussion about current
affairs at WikiConf where there seemed to be a consensus that presenting
every side of the picture is important.
Is reporting the fact that major websites like
and literally
hundreds or thousands of Twitter users are tweeting the hashtag
#IdiotKapilSibal wrong, in that case?
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:05 PM, CherianTinu Abraham <
tinucherian(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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-ca…
"*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(a)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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:06, Achal Prabhala <aprabhala(a)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(a)gmail.com>
>> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <
>> foundation-l(a)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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