China Blocks Wikimedia Foundation's Accreditation To World Intellectual Property Organization (wikimediafoundation.org) 33
China this week blocked the Wikimedia Foundation's application for observer status at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations (UN) organization that develops international treaties on copyright, IP, trademarks, patents and related issues. As a result of the block, the Foundation's application for observer status has been suspended and will be reconsidered at a future WIPO meeting in 2021. Wikimedia Foundation: China was the only country to raise objections to the accreditation of the Wikimedia Foundation as an official observer. Their last-minute objections claimed Wikimedia's application was incomplete, and suggested that the Wikimedia Foundation was carrying out political activities via the volunteer-led Wikimedia Taiwan chapter. The United Kingdom and the United States voiced support for the Foundation's application. WIPO's work, which shapes international laws and policies that affect the sharing of free knowledge, impacts Wikipedia's ability to provide hundreds of millions of people with information in their own languages. The Wikimedia Foundation's absence from these meetings further separates those people from global events that shape their access to knowledge.
To clear up this problem (Score:1)
Kick China out
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Re:To clear up this problem (Score:4, Insightful)
Neither is "Intellectual Property".
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To be fair, the Wikimedia Foundation needs to work on its own issues of bias before being given such a status.
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Unilateral stuff is not cool, especially from particularly authoritarian people. Time to stand up against it.
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What makes the bullies better than nothing? Giving in to bullies only makes them stronger. Bullies aren't the problem, it's our timid reaction that makes it a problem.
All Wikimedia needs to do is simple (Score:5, Insightful)
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Don't forget that all maps need to be edited to include a few dotted islands in the South China Sea with accompanying labels showing the entire area as exclusively belonging to China.
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If you want Asian Men in Black to visit your home, post a Youtube video titled, "Winnie the Pooh visits Taiwan, Tibet, Tiananmen, and Xinjiang."
Let the Agitator do what he does best (Score:1)
I hope T visits Taiwan before the end of his term. It would help legitimize Taiwan, a democracy, and drive Xi nutso.
Re: Let the Agitator do what he does best (Score:2)
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Sorry, but... So what? (Score:2)
Wikimedia holds an astoundingly privileged place in distributing world knowledge and this doesn't change anything.
So... Wikimedia doesn't get an official plaque or something? What's the problem here?
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What.. (Score:3)
Engagement leads to liberalization so they thought (Score:5, Insightful)
Why does China, who does not have any respect for global intellectual property, have any say in global intellectual property organizations?
Because engagement with the west will lead to the liberalization of the Chinese government. Well, so was the theory in the 1960s/70s. Perhaps we should revisit the notion of treating China as one of the adults in the room?
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This all goes back to Nixon and Kissinger who had this brain-damaged notion that somehow China wouldn't take the diplomatic cover they offered and pervert it. They can never be forgiven for selling Taiwan down the river.
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How many countries did China invade recently?
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Tibet was 1950 -- not quite recently. The conflict with India is border skirmishes, not an invasion.
The last invasion war was in 1979 (Vietnam), with occupied land returned in 1992, save for a few reefs (still used for maritime claims).
Meanwhile, Russia, in the last few years, we had Ukraine and Georgia, both with parts of the country annexed, and large pieces rendered puppet states.
Russian troops still sit in Moldova, too, as another puppet state.
China behaves very badly in territories they've annexed a l
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I'm not defending PRC. I'm just pointing out that you're whitewashing Russia.
Re: I'll get hate but... (Score:2)
Submissions here are confusing (Score:2)
Globalist orgs always go toxic (Score:2)
Globalist "do-gooder" organizations ALWAYS are desperate to prove their "open minded" and "inclusive" credentials, so they ALWAYS end up favoring the worst possible elements and giving powerful positions to fundamentally evil people, to PROVE that they are not overly-influenced by the majority-white and majority Judeo-Christian societies that often give birth to them. (NOTE: I am NOT asserting they should be run by whites or Jews or Christians, just that such people have tended to found and believe in such
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One of Hitler's intelligence officers is giving him a promotion, he was a low level gopher. He should still have never been picked to lead the U.N. for being what he was.
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Hypocrisy!! (Score:2)