> On 31/08/13 15:17, Erik Moeller wrote: >> It could be argued >> that itâs time to draw a line in the sand - if youâre prohibiting >> the >> use of encryption, youâre effectively not part of the web. Youâre >> subverting basic web technologies. > > China is not prohibiting encryption. They're prohibiting specific > instances of encryption which facilitate circumvention of censorship. > >> So, what to do? My main suggestion is to organize a broad request for >> comments and input on possible paths forward. > > OK, well there's one fairly obvious solution which hasn't been > proposed or discussed. It would allow the end-to-end encryption and > would allow us to stay as popular in China as we are now. > > We could open a data centre in China, send frontend requests from > clients in China to that data centre, and comply with local censorship > and surveillance as required to continue such operation. > > It would be kind of like the cooperation we give to the US government > at the moment, except specific to readers in China instead of imposed > on everyone in the world. > > It would allow WMF to monitor censorship and surveillance by being in > the request loop. It would give WMF greater influence over local > policy, because our staff would be in direct contact with their staff. > We would be able to deliver clear error messages in place of censored > content, instead of a connection reset. > > -- Tim Starling
Their orders would be classified; disclosure of them would be a crime. Not a problem for us, but a big problem for staff on the ground in China. Fred _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
