On a related note, this has appeared on *The Economic Times* : " Five reasons why India can't censor the Internet" http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/five-reasons-why-india-cant-censor-the-internet/articleshow/11018330.cms
"*Yes, Internet content has the permanence and public-impact potential that a phone call does not, but equally, it lends itself brilliantly to self-regulation. * * * *3. Peer review works: Wikipedia is the best example. Who could have imagined that a user-created encyclopedia could be so objective, and comprehensive? Yes, anyone can go in and edit anything (barring entries like "Kapil Sibal", which have been locked due to vandalism!). * * * *If you make an inappropriate change, someone will come in and correct it.*" Regards Tinu Cherian On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is basically restriction of freedom of expression and it will > hurt Wikipedia much more than it hurts Twitter or Facebook. > > On 07/12/2011, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik....@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:06, Achal Prabhala <aprabh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> fyi > >> > >> -------- Original Message -------- > >> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal Wants to > >> Censor > >> social > >> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:02:10 +0530 > >> From: Achal Prabhala <aprabh...@gmail.com> > >> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List < > >> foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org> > >> > > > > I just want to write that there was a community member who seemed to be > of > > the notion ImageFilter is the technical fix for what Kapil Sibal is > > proposing(without probably understanding / knowing much) and connecting > the > > two distinct things. Yes Sibal showed some images as examples for his > > support, but what Sibal means is much more and prescreening of every byte > > of user generated content. Please tell that member that linking up 2 > > different things is not a good idea. ImageFilter needs to be discussed > with > > its own merits / demerits and this thing that Sibal proposes means much > > more than images. > > > > If at all the legislation comes and is being enforced, I think Wikimedia > > projects are better equipped *technically* than other social media sites > > cited to support the local laws(so that we need not be banned if that > goes > > to that extreme) with a combination of ImageFilter / FlaggedRevisions and > > some more customizations, but thats not where we would like to go. > > Community is already not so strong and needs support, there is so much > work > > to do in increasing content, censorship will cripple Indian community if > > such a thing happens. > > > > There are many questions that the communities need to decide as to submit > > to Indian laws (if at all they come through) and I hope the situation > does > > not arise for us to take those tough calls. > > > > PS : I would not like to post / join foundation-l myself since it has > high > > SNR IMO. > > > > -- > > Regards > > Srikanth.L > > > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > > Regards, > Srikanth Ramakrishnan. > Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >
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