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

[Jon]

Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 December 2008 20:30, David Gerard wrote:
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>> 2008/12/25 Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> I fail to see how your conclusion follows from your premises.
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>> 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".
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> What does this have to do with anything?
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>> 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.
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> Why?  I don't deny its usefulness and appropriateness for SPECIFIC PROJECTS, 
> but why must it be universal across all WMF projects?
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