Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- Jiong Sheng sheng.jiong@gmail.com wrote:
It has been confirmed, as of 8AM GMT, June 4, that Wikipedians in Beijing were banned from accessing. But Wikipedia is still accessible from other parts of China.
Hm - a press release may be in order then. If we make a large enough fuss about this, then maybe the PRC will be shamed into lifting their petty ban.
The fact that this was only applicable for Beijing suggests that this was a short term event based on their understandable paranoia about commemoration of the Tien An Men events. It is very likely that other sites received the same treatment.
Some have wondered about the general permission of the zh-wikipedia to continue to be accessible in the PRC being something close to miraculous.
There are times for making a fuss, but I suspect that doing so at this stage would be counterproductive if the ban in question was for anything more than a limited time. Our Chinese colleagues are best served by having an ongoing access, and I'm afraid that at this stage a fuss might only encourage China's bureaucrats to take more permanent action.
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