China is blocking all language editions of Wikipedia

amelius wrote: post #4

tim333 wrote: post #2

Maybe part of the trade war retaliations?

Shutting down access to knowledge is not going to help them much, I suppose.

Restricting access to information will help the Chinese government retain power over the Chinese people. That's the point..

Re: China is blocking all language editions of Wikipedia

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Post by SiempreViernes » Mon, May 13, 2019, 10:02 AM UTC

rqs wrote: post #3

tim333 wrote: post #2

Maybe part of the trade war retaliations?

To block a non-profit website? I don't think so. BTW: It been blocked days ago. The with no obvious reason, but the time is a (loose) match, weird.

Yeah, this seems like it's done for domestic reasons, and the timing might well be dominated by simple administrative delays.

Re: China is blocking all language editions of Wikipedia

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Post by avcdsuia » Mon, May 13, 2019, 10:03 AM UTC

tim333 wrote: post #2

Maybe part of the trade war retaliations?

More probably for the impending 30th anniversary of 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

Re: China is blocking all language editions of Wikipedia

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Post by elfqh » Mon, May 13, 2019, 10:05 AM UTC

amelius wrote: post #4

tim333 wrote: post #2

Maybe part of the trade war retaliations?

Shutting down access to knowledge is not going to help them much, I suppose.

I assume they have their own wikipedia.

Re: China is blocking all language editions of Wikipedia

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Post by HlessClaudesman » Mon, May 13, 2019, 10:07 AM UTC

onion2k wrote: post #6

amelius wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shutting down access to knowledge is not going to help them much, I suppose.

Restricting access to information will help the Chinese government retain power over the Chinese people. That's the point..

Yes, but another way to look at it, does China's micromanagement of the domestic flow of information result in more or less prosperity for their people? To misquote Hayek: communism is ultimately like telling every car where they should go rather than just putting up street-signs.

* Please add to the debate rather than down-voting. Also Hayek wasn't musing about future autonomous cars, its a metaphor about how deciding what everyone in society should do/think doesn't scale.