> Any society considering a Great Firewall of any sort is neither > democratic nor open, whether or not they periodically hold votes on > exactly who should implement bad ideas. We should not in any way > acknowledge or respect such, though we should help those who live > there and encourage and assist them in circumvention.
Countries have laws. The state enforces those laws. That's one of the main purposes of having a state over anarchy. Censoring parts of the internet is pretty much the only way to enforce child pornography laws (when the sites are hosted abroad). I don't see anything undemocratic about that. It's a democratically elected government making the laws and those laws don't prevent free and fair elections, so it isn't undemocratic. (Of course, an semi-official and unaccountable agency like the IWF enforcing the laws is not a great way to go about it.) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l