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Shlomi Fish | 15 Dec 08:00
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Fw: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia


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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:48:18 -0800
From: Jay Walsh <jwalsh <at> wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l <at> lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia

Today the Wikimedia Foundation posted an important update on how the Stop
Online Piracy Act (SOPA) legislation being considered in DC this week
threatens an open and free web, and particularly how it threatens Wikipedia.

The post is authored by WMF's General Counsel, Geoff Brigham, and can be
found here:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/13/how-sopa-will-hurt-the-free-web-and-wikipedia/

We encourage everyone to broadly share this information among our volunteer
community, throughout your networks, and wherever an audience passionate
about protecting the free and open web can be found.

Thanks,

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Jay Walsh
Head of Communications
WikimediaFoundation.org
blog.wikimedia.org
+1 (415) 839 6885 x 6609, @jansonw
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Greg Folkert | 15 Dec 15:52
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Re: Fw: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia

Top posting: While I appreciate being notified of SOPA and things
associated with it, but a personal appeal from Jay Walsh about a post on
Wikimedia... Please, I don't need any more of this kind message
assaulting me, more than it already is.

      * Yes, any Elitist worth their salt reads and discovers these
        kinds of things already and automagically (for some weird
        reason). 
      * Yes, Jay Walsh has changed the way information is thought of,
        handled, derived, produced and improved. 
      * Yes, I appreciate being kept updated on these kinds of things. 
      * Yes, I already have an RSS aggregation mechanism that keeps me
        informed and updated on many subjects. 
      * Yes, I already have News Alerts on certain topics like the TSA,
        DHS, Patriot Act, Software Patents, SOPA, PROTECT-IP and other
        things that impact me in my life and job or in the environment
        at my job (like the undead CALDERA/SCOg/WhateverItsCalledNow). 
      * Yes, I am subscribed to many lists. Some have had this
        forwarded, also. 
      * Yes, I already have to much to read. 
      * Yes, I already get thousands of e-mails per day, so additional
        noise is just that. If its caught by a rule, I might look at it
        unless its a forward of something I've already received or know
        about.

Don't get me wrong, I am very glad others actually get, read and
(hopefully) comprehend the danger of these kinds proceedings. Forwarding
this message to Linux Elitists is very similar to a Preacher telling a
sermon about how "$DEITY can change your life!" to the Choir behind the
Preacher. Kind of a moot point, that, preaching to the choir.
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