[Foundation-l] Conflict resolution on meta Wikimedia

Wed Feb 23 17:22:21 UTC 2005

Hoi,
I am sorry to say that this person is wearing blinkers. He only sees 
what he wants to see and all othere considerations are not about "what 
is being discussed". Yes, govennments can block wikipedia but that is an 
all or nothing operation. With the censoring tags in place, they can say 
partially block our content, and that is what the censoring tags are 
there for.

The problem as I see it is that this has not been considered because it 
is detrimental to "the cause". By saying that it provides the user with 
a choise, the responsibiltiy for colletoral damage is being denied. This 
is what is not being discussed, this is what is not considered. And 
everything else is a strawman's argument.

Thank God, I still can say what I want to say. Thank God, that I can 
fight for what I think is important. Me not believing in a God is 
immaterial to the sentiment.. :)

Thanks,
    GerardM

Christiaan Briggs wrote:

> Walter van Kalken wrote:
>
>> Well I kinda understand his reaction. Have you ever lived in a 
>> country were they block 30.000 websites and growing? Where the 
>> government is actually implying a policy of what its inhabitants are 
>> "allowed" to see? Why should we make it any easier for these kind of 
>> governments?
>
>
> You didn't respond to any of my points. And the point you make above 
> is yet another straw man. If governments want to block or filter 
> Wikipedia there's nothing stopping them from doing that right now. 
> What this proposal does is provide users with a choice about which 
> images they are presented with when surfing Wikimedia projects.
>
> Christiaan
>
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