[Wikipedia-l] French net censorship law

Wed Jan 14 15:39:41 UTC 2004

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:05:49PM +0800, Ruimu wrote:

> > How might this bill affect Wikipedia, if I go through with plans to
> > set up a French nonprofit?
> 
> Not much, I guess, except if Wikipedia becomes a den of negationists
> (revisionist seems to be the only translation but I don't like it as any
> historian is "revising" History), suicide apologists, or paedophiles.

Maybe you're low on imagination. For example what if there's an article on a
politician which describes what he really have done, but what he does not
like to have published? (Monsieur XY member of the parliament raped his 3
daughters and the dog of the neighbour at age 12.) Or criticising (providing
alternative points of view of) political moves, like cutting countries
apart, killing people, etc?

Oh well, maybe I get it wrong. It would happen in Hungary.

Peter