[Foundation-l] Re: Indymedia and FBI

[Jens Ropers]

On 12 Oct 2004, at 22:22, Magnus Manske wrote:
> Yann Forget wrote:
>
>> What's disturbing in this story is that this treaty which is made to 
>> fight "international terrorism, kidnapping and money laundering" is 
>> subverted for dealing with a political issue. Indymedia might be 
>> wrong, but using against them this kind of treaty made for criminal 
>> cases really endangers free speech and democracy.
>>
>> How this is different that what the Chinese government does?
>>
> Unknowingly, you offer the perfect soultion: Have a wikipedia backup 
> server in China! If the FBI closes the US site, the Chinese government 
> will *love* us ;-)
>
> Magnus

''Earnestly'' folks, that ''is'' a good idea, IMHO:

By intelligently leveraging discrepancies between different 
jurisdictions, we should be able to establish a position of strength, 
where our standards as regards freedom of information can be set based 
on a "legal least common ''multiple''" instead of a "least common 
denominator".

The only issue: If we were to use true mirrors, the replication traffic 
would be insane.
Instead, the primary, active copy of different countries' Wikipedias 
could be located on the servers in the respective countries/on the 
respective continents, with "only" scheduled replication to all other 
sites. This could of course mean losing the very latest contributions 
at a site in case it is taken offline. Then again, maybe even the 
cross-global replication traffic would actually be bearable. After all, 
only the actual ''changes'' would need to be replicated.

Yes, I confess: I'm an MCSE (among other things).
I was young and I needed the money.

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