Ultimately I don't think there is any way we can or should control the
information in Wikipedia in such a way that it would be acceptable to the
security services of China, nor is there any way China with its unstable
political situation can tolerate the information contained in Wikipedia. I
am especially concerned that Wikipedia offers the temptation to people who
reside on the mainland to speak their mind which can result in crippling
consequences for themselves and their families.
Fred
From: Jiong Sheng <sheng.jiong(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: Jiong Sheng <sheng.jiong(a)gmail.com>om>, wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:44:55 +0000
To: wikipedia-l(a)wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] wikipedia is big in China six was once blockade
again
Shizhao has again made a formal request to the authority for the lift
of the blockade. Not sure what's the exact reason yet. There are
possibly two reasons: 1) A user called [[User:Yaohua2000]], who was
once blocked by zh: for vandalism and was rejected for his apllication
for admin, yesterday threatened to report Wikipedia to the government
for spreading information related to Falun Gong and Taiwan
Independence. We don't know if he acutally did that and it is because
of his action that resulted in the blockade.
Another possible cause would be the extensive coverage of the banning
of another famous BBS board in mainland that was banned recently.
YTHT, one of the most popular BBS boards in China was banned few weeks
ago and all other BBS boards were explictly warned not to discuss this
issue. But of course zh Wikipedia still has an article on this event
and many former users from YTHT now joined us. This could also have
exasperated some officials.
I don't know if this time the ban can still be lifted, but the
experience tells us that, after the ban in June, we took three months
to recover. And when we finally reach the same level in June in term
of daily visits, we are banned again.
[[User:formulax]]
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:34:38 +0000 (UTC), shizhao <shizhao(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On September 23, the wikipedia is big in China
six was once blockade again.
[[Zh:user:shizhao]] have already confirmed this news from the cstnet.
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