So will there be a Wikipedia blackout?
PS. June 4 is the perfect date for such protests :)
On 3 June 2013 23:42, Tilman Bayer <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
The EFF reports that this announcement by Taiwanese
Wikimedians does
appear to have had an effect:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/taiwanese-users-thwart-government-pla…
"Taiwanese users were going to stage an Internet black out on Tuesday
June 4th. Several websites, including Wikipedia Taiwan and Mozilla
Taiwan pledged to go dark in order to raise awareness. ... After
several news outlets reported that the new initiative was akin to
mainland China’s “Great Firewall,” the Taiwanese intellectual property
office made an effort to reject the comparison ... In the face of
these criticisms and the planned blackout, the Taiwan Intellectual
Property Office abandoned this severe copyright law."
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Ted Chien <hsiangtai.chien(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
My dear colleagues,
Recently on May 21 the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office has announced
that they will amend the Copyright Act to demand local ISPs to block
illegal contents on foreign websites, just like the SOPA bill in USA last
year. For more information, you can read the following news reports:
Focus Taiwan:
http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aall/201305210035.aspx
ZDNet:
http://www.zdnet.com/cn/taiwans-copyright-act-amendment-proposal-comes-unde…
Now there are many Taiwan netizens protesting the bill:
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/05/26/netizens-fear-copyright-amendment-…
But today we just see an news that TIPO just ignored these protests and
insist that this bill will not harm the net freedom and rights of general
users:
http://newtalk.tw/news/2013/05/28/36854.html (it's in Chinese, you may
use
Google translate to read the news.)
Indeed we should protect the copyright, but to ask ISPs to block websites
is too over-reaction.
We Wikimedia Taiwan is now against the bill and has just released an
Chinese announcement on our official website to explain why we against
the
bill and ask the government to stop the act:
http://bit.ly/ZbvTX0
We also started an discussion on zh.wp to ask the community if we could
put
the announcement as an global site notice, we
even think about blackout
zh.wp for 24 hours (the date is still in discussion):
http://goo.gl/fXi8g
This is because according to
Alexa.com (
http://Alexa.com), Wikipedia is
now
the top 10 website in Taiwan. To blackout
Wikipedia in Taiwan should get
the attention of TIPO and has some effects.
My questions are:
* Could we ask for blackout Wikipedia (not just zh.wp) ONLY for Taiwan
IP?
(Some users from China hope this blackout will
not effect them)
* If we could not blackout Wikipedia only for Taiwan IP, could we ask to
blackout zh.wp? (from what we have discussed on zh.wp, the Chinese
community has agreed on such blackout, but the date is still on
discussion)
* If we could implement such blackout, how soon
it can be done?
* What suggestions from you that we should do as an local Chapter?
Thanks and Regards,
Ted Chien
Chairman
Wikimedia Taiwan
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