[WikiEN-l] UK censorship: I'm on BBC Radio 4 Today show tomorrow 8:20am

[Durova]

The point is that this group goes around preventing other people from
accessing this or that, and neither the website nor the visitors get a fair
notification.  The way they handled this one was loopy, and if Wikipedia
didn't have such heavy traffic it probably would have gone unnoticed.

So what else *does* go unnoticed?

-Durova

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2008/12/8 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>:
> > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> 2008/12/8 Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>:
> >>> Overall, good.  I'll also be blunt: the 'experiment' speculation at the
> end
> >>> handed her a very strong close for the end of the interview.
>  Everyone's a
> >>> critic (and these things are so much easier to second guess after the
> fact),
> >>> yet if another interview such as this comes up it would make a stronger
> >>> finish to wonder how many other websites had been blocked by this
> >>> organization's dubious assessments without appeal, and ask whether
> they're
> >>> really qualified to play nanny to the public.
> >>
> >> Apparently there is a way to appeal, but from I can tell nobody wants
> >> to tell us what it is.
> >
> > How do we appeal whatever else they might be blocking?  For all we
> > know there could be dozens of other articles blocked now or in the
> > future.
> >
> > We only know that this page is being blocked because the traffic
> > hijacking caused collateral damage and someone took a lucky guess.
>
> True, right of appeal doesn't help much with the right to know what
> you are charged with.
>
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