hi, Commons was blocked in my college too. All it took for me to get it unblocked was a 25 min conversation with Head of IT dept. She did the needful to unblock Commons. Suggest talking to the college's/cyber cafe's network administrator first to unblocking websites.
Censorship of content on Commons: I am against censorship. I have nothing more to add to that conversation. Pradeep User:Prad2609 Handheld On 26/12/2011, Gautam John <gau...@prathambooks.org> wrote: > On 26 December 2011 00:43, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> and I don't think chapters should have a say on things like these, >> especially when they put a big disclaimer "We are not responsible for >> content", they loose the right to talk as chapter. > > Say what? There two separate things here. > > 1. Chapter's are indeed not responsible for content - that holds true > for *everyone* except the people who post content. > 2. That a Chapter is not responsible for content, by design, does not > mean they lose any right to speak as a Chapter or otherwise especially > with respect to things a community can take a stand about - the > personal image filter being one of them. A Chapter that is the voice > of a community can do many things with respect to content. > > I don't see the two positions as being immiscible. > > Thank you. > > Best, > > Gautam > ________ > http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 _______________________________________________ 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