吉米威尔士：不愿像google、yahoo一样屈服于中国官员
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Founder Jimmy Wales Says He Refuses To Bow To Chinese Officials Like
Google & Yahoo Did.
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Says He Refuses To Bow To Chinese
Officials Like Google & Yahoo Did.
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales has indicated that he will try to talk
with China about their decision to block his user-updated online
encyclopedia. Although Wikipedia's content is currently blocked in
China, Chinese search engine Baidu has been offering some of the
website's content...claiming it as its own copyrighted material.
Wales said he would travel to China in September to meet with high-
level officials to address the issue of blockage. But he said he
refuses to censor his site's content to gain official approval the way
Google and Yahoo have done.
Regarding the decision to censor its site for Chinese users, Google
says it can play a more useful role in China by participating than by
boycotting it, despite the compromises involved. In an official
statement Google said that "While removing search results is
inconsistent with Google's mission, providing no information (or a
heavily degraded user experience that amounts to no information) is
more inconsistent with our mission."
With an estimated 110 million web surfers, China's internet community
is second only to the U.S.
The country's Internet control system reportedly employs 30,000-50-000
people. According to a 2002 Harvard University report, China's
government blocked at least 19,000 sites during a six month period and
may have blocked as man as 50,000 Internet sites.
It looks like Jimmy Wales may be fighting a losing battle.
一葉知秋
现在还处于中文维基初级阶段，将有很长的路要走，争取2050年达到中等数量水平"