[Foundation-l] Re: Ogg Vorbis versus Chinese Wikinews

Mon May 2 18:32:38 UTC 2005

Robin Shannon (robin.shannon at gmail.com) [050503 02:28]:
> On 5/3/05, David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:

> > And never mind the Chinese speakers in Taiwan, the US, the rest of the
> > world ...
> > Let's imagine the UK government became ridiculously censorious. Would the
> > US-based Wikimedia then adopt the same attitude to English language
> > projects? Of course it wouldn't.

> This isnt quite a fair comparision. It ignores the massive difference
> in population. Britain is about 50 million people out of over a
> billion english speakers. Mainland China is over a billion chinese
> speakers out of a populaiton of one point something billion speakers.

My point is that rather than shying away from it, I think the "FUCK THAT"
in response would be audible from orbit.

- d.