Shocker: Wikipedia founder’s speech gets censored after Chinese internet conference
Having attended the World Internet Conference hosted by the Chinese government, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales may have felt he was making progress with the notoriously non-progressive internet censors in the country. Indeed, he told China Real Time that a meeting with the ruling Communist Party’s tech lead Lu Wei ahead of the event had felt like a “small beginning”. He may have been surprised then to see his own comments made there had been edited when translated into Chinese – on his prized, crowdsourced encyclopedia. At the conference, Wales said: We will see, not perfect, but very much improved machine translation, which will…
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