--- Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
The only forms of censorship Wikipedia should
abide by are those demanded
by United States law (or the respective local
equivalents for the
international Wikipedias).
I would amend this only in saying that I think international wikipedians should of course follow the law in their own country -- I'd hate to think of us taking up a collection for a fund to help a fellow wikipedian in Iran or North Korea who has been imprisoned for writing an NPOV article on some topic that is suppressed there.
But there is no need for kr.wikipedia.org (Korean wikipedia) to be concerned, as an institution, for Korean law.
I suppose there might be a difficult decision to be made at some point, if -- for example -- France tried to block wikipedia because they didn't approve of something we've published (as in the case of Yahoo). Do we follow French law, so as to at least reach the French with as much NPOV as we can, or do we refuse, and trust the French people to find a way around the ban?
Imho, better trust us to have imagination and to find ways to turn around things. In France, I would say the toughest is not the law, the toughest are (is ?) the barriers people build themselves thinking of the law.
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