Fred,
Sorry, there is no us. As far as the United States is concerned they
allowed themselves to spy on any person who is not one of US to be speid
on. Given that our movement is a global movement, the fact that it is
based
in the US is incidental.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 3 September 2013 14:36, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:
Any censor from the United States or European
governments that works
directly with us (I have no personal knowledge of this, I just know it
has to be) is concerned with classified information, not someone's
opinions or factual information about historical events or political
personalities.
Detailed information about construction of advanced nuclear weapons or
the details of military or intelligence operations cannot be on
Wikipedia
just as child pornography cannot be; on the other hand, a distorted, or
devastatingly accurate picture, of the Iraq War, or Obama, can be.
So, while the details of material removed for legitimate security
reasons
cannot be published; in China the identity and any personal information
we have gathered such as the ip address of an editor and the content of
their edits to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 article would be
of
interest to the security apparatus and classified. Any local employee
or
volunteer of ours who shared that information with others even within
our
organization could be prosecuted. It is quite impossible to work with
the
Chinese government in the manner suggested and maintain a scintilla of
integrity. A request by them to remove details about their advanced
nuclear weapons or specific details of their military deployments
would,
of course, be legitimate.
The Chinese government has legitimate reason to avoid extensive public
attention to past errors and disasters; one has only to look at the
history of the Soviet Union to observe the effect of focusing on past
outrages on public morale, but that is their burden to bear not ours to
share.
Fred
Hoi,
Fred, what is different in your scenario from what happens in the USA
?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 3 September 2013 00:23, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net>
wrote:
> > On 31/08/13 15:17, Erik Moeller wrote:
> >> It could be argued
> >> that itâââ‰â¢s time to draw a line in the sand - if
youâââ‰â¢re
> prohibiting
> >> the
> >> use of encryption, youâââ‰â¢re effectively not part
of
the web.
> Youâââ‰â¢re
> >> subverting basic web technologies.
> >
> > China is not prohibiting encryption. They're prohibiting specific
> > instances of encryption which facilitate circumvention of
censorship.
> >
> >> So, what to do? My main suggestion is to organize a broad request
> for
> >> comments and input on possible paths forward.
> >
> > OK, well there's one fairly obvious solution which hasn't been
> > proposed or discussed. It would allow the end-to-end encryption
and
> > would allow us to stay as popular in
China as we are now.
> >
> > We could open a data centre in China, send frontend requests from
> > clients in China to that data centre, and comply with local
> censorship
> > and surveillance as required to continue such operation.
> >
> > It would be kind of like the cooperation we give to the US
government
> > at the moment, except specific to
readers in China instead of
imposed
> > on everyone in the world.
> >
> > It would allow WMF to monitor censorship and surveillance by being
in
> > the request loop. It would give WMF
greater influence over local
> > policy, because our staff would be in direct contact with their
> staff.
> > We would be able to deliver clear error messages in place of
censored
> > content, instead of a connection reset.
> >
> > -- Tim Starling
>
> Their orders would be classified; disclosure of them would be a
crime.
> Not a problem for us, but a big problem for
staff on the ground in
> China.
>
> Fred
>
>
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