[Chapter-delegates] English Wikipedia going dark tomorrow!

[Eduardo Diaz]

Alejandro:

This is a great video. Thanks for the link. I am planning to share it with
our chapter members.

-ed

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch <
apisan at unam.mx> wrote:

> Dear Narelle,
>
> this may sound unpleasant to you but... you are a Tustee, we are humble
> volunteers disconnected from the general strategy of ISOC.
>
> Many of us are under pressure from Chapter members and others in our local
> communities to join the protest and are seen as sitting on our hands upon a
> block of dry ice because we are waiting for guidance from HQ.
>
> IF the Board of Trustees is not discussing the matter as urgent - and
> being a former Trustee I know this can happen - and IF nobody else at "the
> top" has a word about the general strategy of ISOC for these fast-happening
> reactions, can we understand that each chapter is free to react, and will
> not cause even a frown from the PR apparatus of ISOC?
>
> You may find further guidance in the word of our Chair, Raul Echeberria,
> in http://mexico.cnn.com/videos/2012/01/13/el-contenido-de-la-ley-sopa.
> No mention of ISOC is made, though, and he appears only as CEO of LACNIC
> (in Spanish).
>
> I'm really really sorry if I appear as a nuisance. There's just an urgency
> to make decisions - joining the blackout is less than 24 hours away for
> some like... you!
>
> Yours,
>
> Alejandro Pisanty
>
>
>
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> ________________________________________
> Desde: chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org [
> chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] en nombre de Narelle Clark [
> President at isoc-au.org.au]
> Enviado el: lunes, 16 de enero de 2012 23:56
> Hasta: ISOC Chapter Delegates
> Asunto: [Chapter-delegates] English Wikipedia  going dark tomorrow!
>
> 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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