[WikiEN-l] Baidupedia (the downside to free content?)

[Steve Bennett]

On 5/12/06, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> I think people seem to be missing the point.  Sure, Baidu might be in
> technical violation of the GFDL, in which case pretty much every
> fork/mirror in the world is in technical violation of it.  I was more
> focussed on the fact that "entries on Baidupedia, the service from
> Nasdaq-listed Baidu.com launched last month, are censored by the
> Chinese Government".  This is especially horrible because the real
> Wikipedia *isn't accessible in China* to the average internet user who
> doesn't jump through a bunch of technical hoops.

I don't see what's horrible here - the Chinese government didn't
invent censorship yesterday.

Steve