[Wikimedia-l] No internet censorship in Hong Kong

[Nathan]

This is a similar argument to those made against Egypt or Israel etc. It's
a facile and false notion that holding Wikimania in a particular city is an
implicit political endorsement for the national government of the host
city. You could just as easily interpret it in the opposite manner -
holding a Wikimania event in Egypt, Israel, China, the U.S. or elsewhere
supports knowledge liberalism and draws attention to the mission of the WMF
in the areas where it may be most poignant. More likely, the decision of
where to hold the event is made independent of political concerns and the
WMF, as well as the host Wikimedians, take no political positions implicit
or otherwise.

~Nathan