On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 8:19 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 1 July 2012 19:44, Gordon Joly
<gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:
So, USA and Europe. But not the UK.
Yes. Rest assured the WMF is not so foolish as to base anything in the UK.
None of which will matter if the law is so broadly drawn that
Wikimedia UK or even an individual Wikimedian could be held to be an
operator of a telecommunications system. Which is exactly why it would
be nice if someone at Wikimedia UK were to look into this as an issue.
I wouldn't bring it up if it didn't seem like there was an issue.
Feel free to all continue to pat me on the head while saying "no UK
servers, no problem"... even though the point of the bill is that the
servers needn't be in the UK for the government to make it a problem.
Again, read the draft bill. It's insane.
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Tom Morris
<http://tommorris.org/>