IMHO we need to
address the problem form a technical point of view, implicitly discarding
"block'em all" options.
Vito
2016-03-23 19:42 GMT+01:00 Keegan Peterzell <keegan.wiki(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Keegan Peterzell
<keegan.wiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Actually, I am quite appalled by the article. Whether one wants to see
> something positive in pirating or not, the Wikimedia servers are not
meant
> for this purpose (for good reasons). Breaking
rules and taking abuse of
an
opportunity is not a goal by itself.
Kind regards
Ziko
Call it what you want, but the world is changed when ordinary people who
are just trying to do ordinary things
have a roadblock put in front of them. This is that kind of thing, and
it's the "revolution" power of the distributed internet. We can shut
them
down, but Angolans are going to find another way
to do the very things
that
those with full access to the internet take for
granted. As Jason says,
we
should take great caution and give deep thought
before taking a binary
side.
Oh, and I'm not condoning the behavior or use of Wikimedia servers, but I
do think that the entire situation is much more nuanced than the simplicity
of "that's wrong."
--
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