Speaking from North America, I've been disappointed that I have NOT seen huge banners warning the international public of the threats this poses -- even to the future existence of civilization.  I'm serious about the latter:  Both former US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Daniel Ellsberg (of "Pentagon Papers" fame) have said that as long as large nuclear arsenals exist, it is only a matter of time before some misunderstanding leads to a nuclear war killing at least a third of humanity -- primarily in the Northern Hemisphere.  However, Ellsberg further says that such an event will almost certainly lead to a nuclear winter as a result of which 98% of the survivors will starve to death.  I've estimated over a 10% chance of such an event in the next 40 years.[1] 


      Media organizations like Wikipedia are part of the solution to this and virtually every other substantive problem facing humanity today, in my judgment:  Progress on every substantive issue I can think of is blocked, because every countermeasure threatens someone with substantive control over the media.  People with power are threatened by the Wikimedia project, because it's a source of information they cannot control.[2]


      If you see things that people outside Europe can do, please let me know.  So far, I'm primarily focused on anti-nuke work and improving the media where I live.


      Thanks for all your hard work in support of the Wikimedia project. 


      Spencer Graves, PhD
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and
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      Kansas City, MO 64111
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[1] Wikiversity, "Time to extinction of civilization" (https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Time_to_extinction_of_civilization). 


[2] See other articles in Wikiversity, "Category:Freedom and abundance" (https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Category:Freedom_and_abundance)


On 2019-02-07 07:04, Eva Lepik wrote:
So, to be clear: are we all waiting for a Great Leader to step up, start coordinating and handing out the orders according to his/her master plan?
Or shall WE start coordinating here and now, what shall WE do, quickly?
This is our Internet which will be ruined.

Regards,
Eva


On 07.02.2019 13:52, Jan Ainali wrote:
I believe a coordinated effort could have good effects. The proposal as it is right now (there will be trilogues next week that may change it) is so bad that it might be possible to sway some MEP votes to completely block the directive. 
 
Best regards,
Jan Ainali


Den tors 7 feb. 2019 kl 12:14 skrev Sandra Rientjes - Wikimedia Nederland <rientjes@wikimedia.nl>:
In reply to Eva's question ("Do your chapters have an action plan?"). No, at the moment WMNL does not have a plan yet.  Will there be coordinated action by Wikimedia affiliates like last year?   


Sandra Rientjes
Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland

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Op wo 6 feb. 2019 om 22:56 schreef Eva Lepik <eva@kodu.ee>:
Dear all,

the conclusion to the copyright directive is approaching. The outcome
seems to be horrible, as described for example here:
https://twitter.com/paul_keller/status/1092912540194099200

or here: https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/article-13-worse/

Implementation of article 11 (link tax) and article 13 (content
filtering) will have a severely negative impact on the digital
environment.  We don't know how much the link tax will affect the
references in Wikipedia and Wikidata yet. As such, we cannot predict how
much poorer the new liability regime will make our digital environment.
The numerous outcries of digital rights organizations regarding the loss
of freedom of speech and expression should be our concern, too.

The final plenary vote will most probably take place in March or April,
some weeks before the elections of the next European Parliament.  It
will be the last chance to stop this disaster, after that we shall be
left with damage control. Do your chapters have an action plan?

Best regards

Eva Lepik

Wikimedia Eesti

chairperson




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