Narelle:<div><br></div><div>I think that it is a clever way of protesting. It will promise to have you feel impotent. <span class="illustration" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,102,153);font-style:italic">"Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><span class="illustration" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,102,153);font-style:italic">(Freeman J. Dyson).</span></div>
<div><span class="illustration" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,102,153);font-style:italic"><br></span></div><div><span class="illustration" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,102,153);font-style:italic">-ed</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><br></div><div>gives a feeling to anybody that uses these service this riduclous laws<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Narelle Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:President@isoc-au.org.au">President@isoc-au.org.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
This looks like a strong protest!<br>
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Thoughts anyone?<br>
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To: English Wikipedia Readers and Community<br>
From: Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director<br>
Date: January 16, 2012<br>
Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the<br>
English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC<br>
on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia<br>
Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation<br>
in the United States—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House<br>
of Representatives, and the PROTECTIP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate—that,<br>
if passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including<br>
Wikipedia.<br>
<br>
This will be the first time the English Wikipedia has ever staged a public<br>
protest of this nature, and it’s a decision that wasn’t lightly made.<br>
etc at<br>
<a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout" target="_blank">http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout</a><br>
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More info on SOPA:<br>
Try our Harvard colleague (Jonathan Zittrain and BoT member) who is<br>
actively working on this topic:<br>
<a href="http://futureoftheinternet.org/sopa-compromise" target="_blank">http://futureoftheinternet.org/sopa-compromise</a><br>
<br>
and him on Colbert talking about it:<br>
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111202/09361816954/colbert-takes-sopa.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111202/09361816954/colbert-takes-sopa.shtml</a><br>
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Cheers<br>
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N<br>
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Narelle Clark<br>
President<br>
Internet Society of Australia<br>
ph: 0412 297 043<br>
int ph: <a href="tel:%2B61%20412%20297%20043" value="+61412297043">+61 412 297 043</a><br>
<a href="mailto:president@isoc-au.org.au">president@isoc-au.org.au</a><br>
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