On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 09:25:03PM +0530, Achal Prabhala wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 December 2011 08:27 PM, Kim Bruning wrote:
> > I do not believe that the Indian internet community shares Kapil
> > Sibal's position. Though they'll have to speak for
> > themselves, of course! :-)
> They have:
>
> http://blogs.outlookindia.com/default.aspx?ddm=10&pid=2664
>
> and Mr Sibal's passing thought of yesterday is probably not going anywhere.
And hurrah for that! :-)
My absolute nightmare scenario, of course, is that (the next) Mr Sibal calls
Twitter,
Facebook, Google, ..., and Wikimedia into his (or her) office; and that they
all
mutter and hem and haw, except us. We would go "Sir, yes sir! All ready to go
sir!".
This would leave the other "web 2.0" parties in a politically untenable
position.
It is my absolute belief that -without intervention- this scenario could happen
and,
in fact, could have already happened. We have the resources, we have the
technology,
but (fortunately) we haven't reached consensus on applying them in this manner,
yet.
Wikimedia needs to be neutral, and rightly so, imo. However -in terms of
essential
infrastructure, copyright and freedom of speech- we do have certain
requirements. If
our supporting ecosystem does not meet those requirements, we fail to thrive.
Therefore, these essential items do require careful attention from social,
financial,
technical *and* (unfortunately) political angles.
sincerely,
Kim Bruning
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