[Chapter-delegates] English Wikipedia going dark tomorrow!

[Eduardo Diaz]

Narelle:

I think that it is a clever way of protesting. It will promise to have you
feel impotent. "Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without
technology is impotent" (Freeman J. Dyson).

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gives a feeling to anybody that uses these service  this riduclous laws

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Narelle Clark <President at isoc-au.org.au>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
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> Narelle Clark
> President
> Internet Society of Australia
> ph: 0412 297 043
> int ph: +61 412 297 043
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> www.isoc-au.org.au
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