[Foundation-l] Japan seeking to "govern" top web sites

[Ben McIlwain]

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David Gerard wrote:
> On 01/03/2008, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 3:59 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>  > http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/27/technology/wireless28.php
> 
>> As background knowledge,
>>  * Before those censorship days, it may be no surprise that the
>>  government would have liked to retain some control. For your
>>  information, today publishing is no censored, gratefully.
> 
> 
> Good - but I'm interested in practical consequences for ja:wp and ja:
> wikinews. WMF has no assets there, but what are the likely
> consequences for the editors?

While it's true that we have no assets there, ja.wikipedia would
probably fall under the definition of an "influential, widely read
news-related site".  Pakistan wasn't able to take down YouTube (well,
not for too long), but they did manage to block access to it.  I'm not
saying that I ever foresee the Japanese government blocking access to
Wikipedia, but it's not fair to say that we shouldn't be concerned about
this at all simply because we don't have assets there.

Anyway, we don't have assets there now.  Who can say what the future may
bring?

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Ben "Cyde Weys" McIlwain    ( http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/ )
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