Monday, September 11, 2006

good for Wiki

Contrary to the craven corporate cowardice of big-time internet outfits like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, Wikipedia told China to piss up a rope when asked to censor it's entries to comply with China's authoritarian demands.

Wales said censorship was ' antithetical to the philosophy of Wikipedia. We occupy a position in the culture that I wish Google would take up, which is that we stand for the freedom for information, and for us to compromise I think would send very much the wrong signal: that there's no one left on the planet who's willing to say "You know what? We're not going to give up."'


A bit of positive news in the sea of negativity.

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