[Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia

Wed Dec 14 16:46:28 UTC 2011

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Marc A. Pelletier <marc at uberbox.org> wrote:
> On 14/12/2011 2:04 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
>> I am genuinely not anti-american. The logic here does escape me though.
>
>  From a lawmaker's point of view, this is clear enough: US-based
> websites are reachable through the usual legal means and thus can be
> shut down with local intervention instead of having to disappear them
> through the infrastructure.  You can simply sue them to death without
> having a pesky foreign government refusing to accept the decisions of
> the media giants.
>

You can call me an idealist -- if there are still some taking passengers at
this late hour. I was in fact referring to the problem of our legal counsel
expressing a view that it is to WMF favor to have laws that make it more
difficult to fork. The legalities are not at issue, the attitude towards the
international nature of our endeavour are very much at play.

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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]