[Chapter-delegates] English Wikipedia going dark tomorrow!

[Christopher Wilkinson]

This issue is of global relevance for at least two reasons:

-	the extraterritorial reach of some of the SOPA bill's provisions

-	a US precedent that may be followed by others.

CW


On 17 Jan 2012, at 08:25, Fred Baker wrote:

> Do you think they could include HADOPI in that, or is this only  
> about the US?
>
> On Jan 16, 2012, at 9:56 PM, Narelle Clark wrote:
>
>> This looks like a strong protest!
>>
>> Thoughts anyone?
>>
>>
>> To: English Wikipedia Readers and Community
>> From: Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director
>> Date: January 16, 2012
>> Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out  
>> the
>> English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at  
>> 05:00 UTC
>> on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the  
>> Wikimedia
>> Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed  
>> legislation
>> in the United States—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S.  
>> House
>> of Representatives, and the PROTECTIP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate— 
>> that,
>> if passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet,  
>> including
>> Wikipedia.
>>
>> This will be the first time the English Wikipedia has ever staged a  
>> public
>> protest of this nature, and it’s a decision that wasn’t lightly made.
>> etc at
>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
>>
>>
>> More info on SOPA:
>> Try our Harvard colleague (Jonathan Zittrain and BoT member) who is
>> actively working on this topic:
>> http://futureoftheinternet.org/sopa-compromise
>>
>> and him on Colbert talking about it:
>> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111202/09361816954/colbert-takes-sopa.shtml
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> N
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>>
>>
>> Narelle Clark
>> President
>> Internet Society of Australia
>> ph: 0412 297 043
>> int ph: +61 412 297 043
>> president at isoc-au.org.au
>> www.isoc-au.org.au
>>
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