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