Discrimination against China and Chinese mappers SHOULD NOT exist in OpenStreepMap

This is a reply to a previous diary that has spoken evil of China and Chinese Mappers. As a Chinese OSM user I feel terribly offended, outraged and disappointed about the opinions conveyed from the diary - and I feel obliged to write a reply.

This reply is solely my own words and does NOT reflect the opinion of OSM China community, if any.

　

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“Chinese Commies”? Whoever doesn’t want political nonsense in OSM is talking the most political nonsense.

Yet here we are again, the Chinese Commies just spit on everything they thought was rightful.

That was the beginning of the diary. The message was pretty clear: The author was NEVER really meant to exclude political nonsenses from OSM communty, and interestingly, he who referred Chineses as “Commies” is the most political nonsense-maker.

Typical ad hominem attack, and even as a non-communist I feel offended. Communist is called Communist, not the word commie that the author has disrespectfully spelled. And I really don’t see the point of the author mentioning communist or communism.

What I have perceived between the lines from the author is merely discrimination and hostility against China and OSM China users. And given such discrimination, I wouldn’t believe there would be any fruitful and meaningful discussion with the author.

Long story short, OpenStreetMap should not be biased against any ideology / politics / religion.

　

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The Truth of Vandalism

Thanks for the detailed list that summarizes the existing vandalism from Chinese users. I believe that OSM China is also positively coping with such vandalism - and that IS what OSM China is doing right now - please refer to the so-called “Wonderful poppycock from zh-CN users”.

Vandalism from Chinese users does exist, but please do not cherrypick, exaggerate and attack.

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