Better yet, if we could write article (even about Taiwan, et al.) so NEUTRALLY that even mainland China had no objections, that would be a big plus -- besides being a public service to China and the world.
Ed Poor
-----Original Message----- From: Larry Sanger [mailto:lsanger@nupedia.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 11:08 AM To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Censored by China?
Can anyone find out whether Wikipedia has been censored by China?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2540309.stm
While of course that would be very unfortunate, it would be a great selling point for the website: "Censored by China!" I can even see making some great banners and graphics. ;-)
Larry
Ed, You just don't get it. The only article acceptable to them will be an article that is neither objective or neutral.
Fred
Better yet, if we could write article (even about Taiwan, et al.) so NEUTRALLY that even mainland China had no objections, that would be a big plus -- besides being a public service to China and the world.
Ed Poor
-----Original Message----- From: Larry Sanger [mailto:lsanger@nupedia.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 11:08 AM To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Censored by China?
Can anyone find out whether Wikipedia has been censored by China?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2540309.stm
While of course that would be very unfortunate, it would be a great selling point for the website: "Censored by China!" I can even see making some great banners and graphics. ;-)
Larry _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
Poor, Edmund W wrote:
Better yet, if we could write article (even about Taiwan, et al.) so NEUTRALLY that even mainland China had no objections, that would be a big plus -- besides being a public service to China and the world.
That's not the way it works. For many bureaucrats it's the most neutral articles that are the most offensive.
Ec
At 10:02 AM 12/4/02 -0800, Ec wrote:
Poor, Edmund W wrote:
Better yet, if we could write article (even about Taiwan, et al.) so NEUTRALLY that even mainland China had no objections, that would be a big plus -- besides being a public service to China and the world.
That's not the way it works. For many bureaucrats it's the most neutral articles that are the most offensive.
Ec
I also suspect that the structure of the Wikipedia is enough to get us banned by censors--even if they found our articles on X, Y, and Z entirely acceptable when they looked, they know that the articles could change at any time.
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