Of course, we can decide to follow or not, and I hope we decide not to. I want you to be informed that we have the risk to be blocked from South Korea and we could loose editors from South Korea.
I suggest we make a voice against South Korean government, 'cause I don't want to say good bye to you all. --Cheol 2009/4/10 Mark Williamson <[email protected]>: > No, in most cases we don't have to abide by the law tof the United Kingdom. > > There are hundreds of countries in the world, each with their own > different laws, some seemingly quite draconian when it comes to what > content is allowed. Imagine, in North Korea the things we say about > Kim Jong-il are probably illegal, but we don't have to follow their > law because our website is based in... Florida. > > Mark > > 2009/4/9 RYU Cheol <[email protected]>: >> I'm not sure what you mean by no business in South Korea. >> The foundation is in Florida, so you don't need to abide by the law of >> United Kingdom? >> >> But I'm an contributing editor of Wikipedia residing in South Korea >> and some of ko.wp editors are preparing to establish South Korea >> chapter to promote Free Culture Movement. South Korean editors have to >> abide by the regulations of Korean government. >> >> I want to know if we have visitors more than 100,000 from South Korea or >> not? >> >> -Cheol >> >> 2009/4/9 Nathan <[email protected]>: >>> Assuming it isn't an April Fool's joke, the fact remains that the Wikimedia >>> Foundation is not bound to abide by the laws of South Korea. Google had >>> business there, presumably, while the Foundation does not. >>> >>> Nathan >>> _______________________________________________ >>> foundation-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
