These days I just say this report - Less than 14% of World Lives in Countries with Free Press <http://gijn.org/2013/05/07/less-than-14-of-the-world-lives-in-countries-with-a-free-press/>
It would be interesting a global comparison on how these States with less freedom deal with Wikipedia. We could have a page with a table of countries where Wikipedia is partially/totally blocked, among other things. I wonder how it will be when we begin to use Internet for real. Tom 2013/5/8 Tomasz W. Kozlowski <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > I think it should be noted that the Russian Wikipedia is having more and > more problems with the state-maintained Internet blacklist (an idea that > they heavily opposed, and which made them go on strike last July). > > Apparently, the infamous "cannabis smoking" article was put back on the said > blacklist two days ago (May 6)[1] due to a decision of the Federal Drug > Control Service which doesn't like the current wording of the article. The > blacklist now includes fifteen (15) articles related to drugs and suicide: > thirteen (13) from the Russian, and two (2) from the English Wikipedia[2]. > > This is the second time that the Russian Wikipedia is having trouble with > the blacklist in the past 30 days, something that has unfortunately been > missed over the DCRI controversy that occurred in the first days of April. > > <shameless promotion> > For those of you who haven't heard of this yet, I prepared a short summary > at <http://twkozlowski.net/roskomnadzor-strikes-back/>; the previous episode > of the "Wikipedia vs. Roskomnadzor" story is described at > <http://twkozlowski.net/wikipedia-censorship-attempts/>. > </shameless promotion> > > I'm quite sure that it is a mere coincidence that the Russian and French > controversies occurred around the same time, but it's nevertheless a bit > worrying to have to watch our communities being forced to edit the contents > of articles to please the authorities & take them off blacklists. > > == References == > * [1] > <http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130507/181016379/Wikipedia-Cannabis-Article-Put-Back-on-Russian-Blacklist.html> > * [2] http://tiny.cc/e7urww > > -- Tomasz > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
