[Wikipedia-l] Censorship and self-censorship [Ex: French netcensorship law]

[Ruimu]

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From: "Ruimu" <ruimu at uestc.edu.cn>

> P.S. : I know that censorship is a widely hated thing, so my ideas here
may
> seem to be hateful for some of you. Please consider that I tried to soften
> them as much as possible, and that I'm not helped 'cause I'm not using my
> mother tongue. Many evil things are necessary (on WP, banning someone is
> this way; in society, I could say cops, laws, ...). Most of those evil
> things are bad (and rejected) when they come from outside, I mean from
> someone else. When you internalize them, they may not be so evil--that's
> my key point.

    Just to make it clear: I don't support French law that was previously
the topic of this thread, and I personnally don't care at all on where a WP
server is to be installed in Europe. I just tried to link a little bit this
censorship issue on VfD, edit wars and Ban issues.