Wow, what a complete mis-understanding and misrepresenting of facts my that blog author
On Friday, June 7, 2013, Benjamin Chen wrote: > Hi, > > Since 31 May, China's Great Firewall has blocked the HTTPS connection to > all language versions of Wikipedia, by blocking port 443 on two of our IPs. > I was also told that service to Wikimedia Commons may be affected. Other > projects, such as en.wikisource are not affected by this block (but they > may still be subjected to keyword censoring on HTTP). > > Compared to the previous short-lived half-day block, this time the block > has been in place for a week and as usual no one knows if it will last for > long. > > Here is an article that has some explanation, some comments, and (their) > opinions and suggestions for the Foundation. > > > https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/jun/wikipedia-drops-ball-china-not-too-late-make-amends > > Regards, > > Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]] > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
