Christopher Mahan a écrit:
...Wikipedia is a threat to closed information, particularly that kind of closed information that governments often dislike: information that undercuts assertions that everything is on track.
Yes, if every other article is about failure of this and breakdown of that, with Falung and Commies and Free Tibet all over the place, I would shut it down too.
I want to see articles about increased privatisation, efforts the government makes in building health, telecom, and transportation infrastructure. I want to see articles about economic growth in Shanghai, about schools in remote locations, about the growing chinese auto assembly and manufacturing capabilities.
These things are happening in China. Not including them in and of itself is admitting western-bias, which, you are right, the Chinese authorities don't look kindly upon.
I totally agree with you here.
I do not mean chinese editors should not talk about the controversial issues, but if they should also take *great care* to talk about the good points above mentionned.
They could make it proeminent that wikipedia is not only talking about failure but also about *success* and perhaps their governement will see it not only as a dangerous tool, but also as a tool to show to non-chinese all the success the chinese can be very proud of.
There is no need to censor failure then, but perhaps only to try to make success a bit more proeminent, to gain some support.
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