[Foundation-l] Re: Ogg Vorbis versus Chinese Wikinews

[Robin Shannon]

On 5/3/05, David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> 
> And never mind the Chinese speakers in Taiwan, the US, the rest of the
> world ...
> 
> Let's imagine the UK government became ridiculously censorious. Would the
> US-based Wikimedia then adopt the same attitude to English language
> projects? Of course it wouldn't.
> 
> 
> - d.

This isnt quite a fair comparision. It ignores the massive difference
in population. Britain is about 50 million people out of over a
billion english speakers. Mainland China is over a billion chinese
speakers out of a populaiton of one point something billion speakers.

paz y amor,
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