[Wikipedia-l] Re: Two issues here: what is legal to have on the server and what is legal in the user's nation

[Kurt Jansson]

Lee Daniel Crocker schrieb:
> Indeed, I would consider it heroic to violate local laws to post
> useful information on Wikipedia, such as first-hand descriptions of
> the acts of despotic governments, or information about how to
> defeat net access restrictions.

Me too. How about not showing IP addresses on the Chinese Wikipedia and 
some others?


> A more tricky issue is postings that are legal elsewhere but not
> legal in California, such as the posting of information that is
> public domain in places whose legislature isn't owned by Disney.
> We probably have to supress such information, which is a shame.

BTW, is it just prudery that I seldom see nudity in american movies, or 
are there laws against it? If so, this might become a similar problem.

Kurt