From: Gareth Owen <wiki () gwowen ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
"Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen" daniel@copyleft.no writes: It's entirely conceivable that a large country (say France) would
make it
illegal to access Wikipedia for its citizens
A large country has. China's great firewall blocks much of wikipedia. We *could* amend it so that its acceptable to the Chinese government. We *could* amend it so that its acceptable to the French government.
Personally, I'm not in favour of that.
I don't want to let this stand without comment. What is your source for the fact that China "blocks much of wikipedia"?
It is actually quite well know that (astonishingly) China does NOT block Wikipedia now, and a quick check with zh.wikipedia.org denizens confirms this. Folks are accessing Wikipedia from Beijing, Guangdong, Shenzhen and smaller cities/universities inside China.
I'm not a PRC apologist by any means, but let's go with what the facts bear out.
Andrew Lih Journalism and Media Studies Centre University of Hong Kong