[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikizh-l] Re: Wikipedia banned in China, news from Taiwan (translated)

[Brion Vibber]

Robert Scott Horning wrote:
> With the control over information that the Chinese government has, it
> doesn't really surprise me or shock me in the least. The shocking thing
> was that they premitted as much as they did. In some ways, having the
> communist government ban Wikipedia may be the best thing that could have
> happened. It will get international attention to the project,
> particularly when the international press realizes that Wikipedia is
> even in Chinese and many other languages as well. It will also stop the
> cautious attitude that editors on the Chinese Wikipedia have had so far
> to try and avoid pissing off the Chinese government, strongly affecting
> POV issues. The only worry I would see now is that the zh.wikipedia
> doesn't go too far the other way in becoming a forum for Chinese
> dissidents.

In case you haven't noticed, Wikipedia has been blocked and unblocked in
China several times already, and I'm sure will be several times in the
future.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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