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I wasn't able to find contact information, but there is a conservative Mennonite guy who downloaded Wikipedia onto a flash drive and censored topics conservative Mennonites find objectionable. It costs around $120.

cooper wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:27 pm I wasn't able to find contact information, but there is a conservative Mennonite guy who downloaded Wikipedia onto a flash drive and censored topics conservative Mennonites find objectionable. It costs around $120.

Considering Wikipedia’s licence which mandates unrestricted copying, if you can find someone with a copy of that, you can legally make as many copies as you want to give to other people.

cooper wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:27 pm I wasn't able to find contact information, but there is a conservative Mennonite guy who downloaded Wikipedia onto a flash drive and censored topics conservative Mennonites find objectionable. It costs around $120.

Is that actually legal and does it fall under the "fair use" copyright restrictions for Wikipedia content?

I'm not sure it is actually legal to appropriate Wikipedia content as your own and sell it. But I could be wrong about that.

Of all the literature in my house, my 2001 set of encyclopedias is the least of my concern. Unless something really changed in the last 20+ years

Ken wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:38 pm

cooper wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:27 pm I wasn't able to find contact information, but there is a conservative Mennonite guy who downloaded Wikipedia onto a flash drive and censored topics conservative Mennonites find objectionable. It costs around $120.

Is that actually legal and does it fall under the "fair use" copyright restrictions for Wikipedia content?

I'm not sure it is actually legal to appropriate Wikipedia content as your own and sell it. But I could be wrong about that.

Wikipedia has a ShareAlike licence. So you can modify it and sell it, but:

- You must give attribution that the text came from Wikipedia
- You must grant the same licence for your own changes
- You can’t prohibit someone from redistributing it including your new changes.

Anyone you sold it to could resell it, or just distribute copies for free.

cooper wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:27 pm I wasn't able to find contact information, but there is a conservative Mennonite guy who downloaded Wikipedia onto a flash drive and censored topics conservative Mennonites find objectionable. It costs around $120.

Samuel Hoover. Home Office Resource.
I have both his address and email, and will send it via private message if anyone wants it. (I would need to ask him before posting it publicly.)

He has several different versions, for children, for parents, and for teachers. He also updates it every year. He also includes other helpful resources for medical care centers, etc.

Neto wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:57 am

cooper wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:27 pm I wasn't able to find contact information, but there is a conservative Mennonite guy who downloaded Wikipedia onto a flash drive and censored topics conservative Mennonites find objectionable. It costs around $120.

Samuel Hoover. Home Office Resource.
I have both his address and email, and will send it via private message if anyone wants it. (I would need to ask him before posting it publicly.)

He has several different versions, for children, for parents, and for teachers. He also updates it every year. He also includes other helpful resources for medical care centers, etc.

This is advertised in Plain Communities Business Exchange.

Ken wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:38 pm

cooper wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:27 pm I wasn't able to find contact information, but there is a conservative Mennonite guy who downloaded Wikipedia onto a flash drive and censored topics conservative Mennonites find objectionable. It costs around $120.

Is that actually legal and does it fall under the "fair use" copyright restrictions for Wikipedia content?

I'm not sure it is actually legal to appropriate Wikipedia content as your own and sell it. But I could be wrong about that.

Most of Wikipedia is under the Creative Commons license, which is legal to reuse for commercial use.
https://creativecommons.org/share-your- ... al%20terms.

This license enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms.

mike wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:02 am

Neto wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:57 am

cooper wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:27 pm I wasn't able to find contact information, but there is a conservative Mennonite guy who downloaded Wikipedia onto a flash drive and censored topics conservative Mennonites find objectionable. It costs around $120.

Samuel Hoover. Home Office Resource.
I have both his address and email, and will send it via private message if anyone wants it. (I would need to ask him before posting it publicly.)

He has several different versions, for children, for parents, and for teachers. He also updates it every year. He also includes other helpful resources for medical care centers, etc.

This is advertised in Plain Communities Business Exchange.

Yes, that's him. I'd say he has done a tremendous amount of work, pouring through basically all of the articles that might contain photos, diagrams, or text info that a conservative parent would not want to have available to a child. (It is, of course, a parent's rightful place to be able to do this. I remember the remarks I heard from other HS kids, looking at their biology books. And they were also passed around to younger students. It's the nature of the beast - lust.)

Neto wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:00 pm Yes, that's him. I'd say he has done a tremendous amount of work, pouring through basically all of the articles that might contain photos, diagrams, or text info that a conservative parent would not want to have available to a child. (It is, of course, a parent's rightful place to be able to do this. I remember the remarks I heard from other HS kids, looking at their biology books. And they were also passed around to younger students. It's the nature of the beast - lust.)

Definitely one of many business opportunities to serve the portions of the plain community that don't want to use the Internet.