[Wikimedia-l] No internet censorship in Hong Kong

[Itzik Edri]

+1. I totally agree with Nathan.

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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