2008/12/12 Michael Peel <[email protected]>: > IMO, the best approach would be to have a channel (a phone number, an > email address, etc...) where governments can contact the WMF to > request that certain pages are blocked in certain countries. These > entries can then be publicly listed, so that people know that they > are censored, and when a censored page is requested a notice should > be displayed instead saying that the page is censored.
I really can't see this one flying. > I don't like the idea of censoring at all, but it seems to be > required in today's world. We can't do much about that, but we can > deal with it in such a way that people know that it is being > censored, rather than just hiding it behind error 404 messages. It > also lets the rest of the world continue editing those pages, so that > they are there when they no longer need to be censored (and/or other > sites can distribute them to). Think of it as the digital version of > a black marker over text. So far we've spotted it pretty readily. We could do this job by maintaining a list of known blocked pages in given countries. This page will of course be blocked by all the countries listed, but the list will spread readily once it exists. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
