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I would think the Wikimedia would stand on principle and refuse to remove items that are factually true. This capitulation to the whims of globally driven censo
by ratsmack 8y ago
I would think the Wikimedia would stand on principle and refuse to remove items that are factually true. This capitulation to the whims of globally driven censorship needs to come to an end, and will only happen with an organization with a strong backbone and a commitment to freedom of speech and/or press.
- vbezhenar 8y agoI would prefer them to keep a separate version for Germany which will have additional indication that this page was censored by German government. People coming from other IP addresses should view original page. Surely Germany can't forbid people from the other countries to get some information from servers located outside of Germany.
- 0xb100db1ade 8y agoWhile a good idea, keep in mind that the article says Wikipedia only had one day to take action.
- philwelch 8y agoI would prefer them to force Germany’s hand and make them build a China-style firewall.
- dylan604 8y agoHow unnecessarily expensive would that be to maintain how many versions of facts?
- baroffoos 8y agoA big black box over one of the paragraphs saying that it was censored would be effective.
- petre 8y agoOr they could block access from Germany altogether, like the Gutenberg project did after another court ruling.
- SiempreViernes 8y agoThere was a court case that determined what was factually true in this case, and wikipedia lost: turns out that even newspapers can present false information.