[Foundation-l] Why is the world attacking Microsoft censorship?

[Fred Bauder]

But we are not engaged in futilely trying to save people on the  
mainland from the executioner. Everything has natural limits. China  
will change and one man standing in front of a tank is noble but it  
is also bad to re-enact the charge of the light brigade. We can go  
far and be bold; we have done that, but going way too far and harming  
innocent, or possibly naive, people would be wrong.

I think that part of the world press that has a presence in China  
would fully understand our position. They deal everyday with trying  
to protect the freedom of their sources.

Fred

On Jan 9, 2006, at 5:14 AM, Alan Knight wrote:

> Why is the world press attacking Microsoft censorship in China?
>
> http://news.google.com/news?as_q=Microsoft+China 
> +blog&svnum=10&as_scoring=r&hl=en&btnG=Google 
> +Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nsrc=&as_nloc=&as_occt=any&as_drrb=q& 
> as_qdr=&as_mind=10&as_minm=1&as_maxd=9&as_maxm=1
>
> If they wanted, they could find an equally good target in the  
> usually atruistic Wikipedia's barring the creation of Chinese  
> Wikinews.  Microsoft giving into Chinese censorship for business  
> reasons is no worse than Wikipedia's barring a Chinese project in  
> deference to Beijing's censors.  When you act frightened you get  
> stepped on, and that is exactly what happended to all of us: We  
> prevented a Wikinews out of fear for Wikipedia, but they block the  
> Wikipedia anyways.
>
> With all due respect for Jimbo, if he continues to use "no Chinese  
> Wikinews" as a carrot to get Wikipedia back into China, he will  
> ultimate fail at both despite his good intentions.
>
> Let's set up Chinese Wikinews before this story hits the world press!!
>
> Alan
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