[Wikipedia-l] What would Richard Stallman say?

Thu Feb 19 19:28:03 UTC 2004

On 19 Feb 2004, Gareth Owen wrote:

> > It's entirely conceivable that a large country (say France) would make it
> > illegal to access Wikipedia for its citizens
>
> A large country has.  China's great firewall blocks much of wikipedia.
> We *could* amend it so that its acceptable to the Chinese government.
> We *could* amend it so that its acceptable to the French government.
>
> Personally, I'm not in favour of that.

This is confusing two issues. Censorship and copyright. I agree that we
shouldn't adhere to Chinese censorship laws. But staying legal in an open
democracy such as France is something else.

-- Daniel