Am 15.10.2012 21:19, schrieb Theo10011:
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Yann Forget <yan...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
This announcement is worrying, to say the least.
In other words, the Wikimedia Foundation is doing a partnership with
one of the most retrograde government, which is also a regular censor
on Internet content.
How could you justify that?
Hi Yann
It's not a partnership with the government, it's with a telecom company to
allow its subscriber in KSA (MENA region), free and easy access to
Wikipedia. KSA is a big part of the middle-east region, the political
reasons aside this helps the public get better access to Wikipedia. There
is no reason why we should not increase availability for the general public.
I'm not sure about the stance against this either, if a government is
trying to censor and restrict access, we should do what? not help provide
access to their citizens, not increase availability? how would that help
the situation? This is a way of working with the current situation and
perhaps around it, its about providing free access to people in the region,
which is probably the best thing to do at the time.
Regards
Theo
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There is always the doubt that an initiative achieves its goal. After
reading the latest contribution of Saudi Arabia to the World
Telecommunication Policy Forum 2013 [1], I'm really a pessimist. In
short: They claim that it is "absolutely necessary" to tackle the
problem of freedom of expression in the Internet.
After reading that report I'm truly pessimistic in this regard.
Additionally i know about the deep relationship between the Saudi
Telecom Company and Intigral. The later one is well known to provide
efficient censorship solutions. So i have to fear that the subscribers
will get the censored version of WP instead the real one and that such
an cooperation actually helps to keep the people away from accessing the
uncensored version. ("They demand a book of truth? Let's give them the
book of our truth, so that they can be happy, ...")
[1] http://www.itu.int/md/S12-WTPF13PREP-C-0026/en
nya~
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