On 5/13/06, Prasad J prasad59@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with Timwi, encouraging Chinese citizens to break the laws of their country is probably not the right thing to do, even though such forms of censorship seem unfair. Also, what if the Chinese authorities manage to track down those who break their censorship laws? Let us not forget what the government does to "dissidents" in China. And what is the press gets hold of this? The issue of Wikipedia and Chinese Government censorship has been in the news. If we start encouraging Chinese Wikipedians to break the law, it will only mean bad publicity for the Foundation.
I'm not sure we should be *encouraging* Chinese citizens to break any laws, but I'm fully behind supporting those that choose to do so.
As for bad publicity for the Foundation, I'm not a member of the Foundation and never made any claim to speak for them (not that I accept that it would be bad publicity, mind you). I do feel that this discussion is "beyond the scope of this mailing list" though. If you'd prefer to send any responses to me off-list, please do so. Another place you can reach me is at http://jnanabase.org/index.php/User_talk:Anthony, although I don't log on there as often as I used to.
Anthony