[Foundation-l] Chinese Wikipedia unblocked in Mainland China

[Ian A. Holton]

Hey,

 let's keep this discussion NPOV Wikipedia-style - especially when talking
about a country that is being potrayed in the media as the sleeping evil
giant on the one hand and the next world superpower (and hope) by the
others.

It is correct, that many things in the People's Republic of China may not be
dealt with in the same way as the West / the free world, but let's not start
repeating obvious propaganda messages and statements of the other extreme.

In regards to the subject at hand, I'm not sure what the reason for
unblocking is and the Olympics are not necessarily the reason for
_everything_ happening in the PR at the moment. I know my fair bit on the
GWC topic and I am fairly certain that blocking is cheaper and more
effective than unblocking, disregardless of if they are tracking who is
looking at what, when, why and how.

Ian
[[User:Poeloq]]

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:

> Probably cheaper too. You gotta pay all the spooks monitoring people (and
> the snatch and grab teams kidnapping them, and the interrogators etc.). All
> that money could be used for more important things (like bribes, and lining
> corrupt officials pockets).
>
> -dan
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Ian A. Holton <poeloq at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Ting, confirmation of the unblock? I can confirm this. I have a server
> in
> > > Beijing which had access, my friends in Beijing have access and I can
> > also
> > > confirm that access to Wikipedia, both English and Chinese, was
> unblocked
> > in
> > > Huludao (Liaoning Province) as of today.
> > [snip]
> >
> > Perhaps it's just become considered better to allow access then track
> > who reads what.  :-/
> >
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