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

Thu Dec 15 12:39:31 UTC 2011

There are two steps that strike me as obvious. Inform the committee of the
community's concerns and go to the press.

Here in the UK when a union gets a majority vote for strike action it
sometimes focuses management's attention and prompts concessions.

Going straight from such a vote to taking action would in my view lose a
useful opportunity to let those promoting SOPA from dropping or amending it
before we take action.

WSC

Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:12:34 -0800
> From: Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari at wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and
>        Wikipedia
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
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> Before anyone blanks the en.wiki Main Page, please remember that the
> bill is still in committee. It could still be heavily modified or
> rejected completely before going to the floor. If it does go to the
> floor, it probably wouldn't be until January, so there's still some time
> for other, less-dramatic approaches in the meantime.
>
> Ryan Kaldari
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