[Foundation-l] New project proposal: Soviet Repressions Memorial

[Kurt Maxwell Weber]

On Wednesday 24 December 2008 20:30, David Gerard wrote:
> 2008/12/25 Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>:
> > Hard to keep things straight isn't it when the object is to make a point.
> > I speak of Red China, still controlled by Mao's heirs.
>
> Well, yes. (Who thankfully are not gross incompetents at the actual
> management to the degree he was.) And it turns out that remaining
> politically neutral is one of the best things we can do as well as the
> cheapest and easiest, because we have the moral high ground and we're
> not going away.

I fail to see how your conclusion follows from your premises.

> And as economics shifts to information, we have 
> credibility to the skies. "Information wants to be free" means "it
> leaks like a gas" and "running a Great Firewall is like trying to
> carry air in a bucket".

What does this have to do with anything?

>
> Abandoning neutrality as a general operating principle (manifested as
> NPOV on Wikipedia, variants on other projects where that doesn't make
> direct sense) would be a disaster.

Why?  I don't deny its usefulness and appropriateness for SPECIFIC PROJECTS, 
but why must it be universal across all WMF projects?
-- 
Kurt Weber
http://blog.kurtweber.us
<kmw at kurtweber.us>