Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2008 20:30, David Gerard wrote: > >> 2008/12/25 Fred Bauder <[email protected]>: >> >>> Hard to keep things straight isn't it when the object is to make a point. >>> I speak of Red China, still controlled by Mao's heirs. >>> >> Well, yes. (Who thankfully are not gross incompetents at the actual >> management to the degree he was.) And it turns out that remaining >> politically neutral is one of the best things we can do as well as the >> cheapest and easiest, because we have the moral high ground and we're >> not going away. >> > > I fail to see how your conclusion follows from your premises. > > >> And as economics shifts to information, we have >> credibility to the skies. "Information wants to be free" means "it >> leaks like a gas" and "running a Great Firewall is like trying to >> carry air in a bucket". >> > > What does this have to do with anything? > > >> Abandoning neutrality as a general operating principle (manifested as >> NPOV on Wikipedia, variants on other projects where that doesn't make >> direct sense) would be a disaster. >> > > Why? I don't deny its usefulness and appropriateness for SPECIFIC PROJECTS, > but why must it be universal across all WMF projects? > ?
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