[Wikipedia-l] wikipedia in China

[Stan Shebs]

Christopher Mahan wrote:

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>--- Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:
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>>All the things you suggest are good and no problem for the
>>government. I
>>have absolutely no problem with writing about all those good
>>things. But the
>>focus of the government is going to be on things like that BBS that
>>got shut
>>down. Should there be no article? A syncopathic article explaining
>>why it
>>was necessary to shut it down from the government viewpoint? Or an
>>article
>>from a Neutral point of view?
>>
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>No article at all.
>It is truly insignificant, if you think about it.
>When there are 350,000 articles in Chinese about Chinese history,
>politics, culture and religions, then, a small blurb about efforts by
>the central govt to curb radicalism that impacted a small number of
>computer users (anything less than 10 million is small in china.)
>would be called for. 
>
>Let's not focus on the twisted twig while standing in a large forest.
>
And ditto for the Tiananmen square articles, since only a couple thousand
people died, after all - hardly any at all, percentagewise!

While we're at it, I think there are a bunch of other governments
who would like us to remove certain articles. We could surpass
"neutral point of view" by being "completely neutered"...

Stan