[Foundation-l] Wikimania and the Muhammad pix

[Aphaia]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24/02/2008, Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 4:31 AM,  <daniwo59 at aol.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >  >  Rather, the
>  >  >  question is whether the WMF is prepared to show implicit support for  a
>  >  >  regime that discriminates against homosexuals, members of religious  minorities,
>  >  >  bloggers, women, and political adversaries. For a movement motivated  by "Free
>  >  >  as in Freedom," it seems to be an ironic choice.
>  >
>  >
>  > When Wikimania 2006 was held in Boston, WMF did not show implicit
>  >  support (or implicit opposition) to Diebold voting computers, Gitmo,
>  >  Waterboarding, tax cuts, NASCAR, wiretapping, US-VISIT, Dixie Chicks
>  >  or "the neutrality of this book is disputed"-stickers on biology
>  >  textbooks.
>
>  Danny's point that holding an event in a particular country shows
>  implicit support (or rather, implicit acceptance) of the government,
>  is quite different to supporting particular aspects of the country
>  you're in.

Mathias ist Deutsch.

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