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
member of the Boards of KKFI.org, the Friends of
Community Media (
ourfcm.org) and
PeaceWorksKC.org
and
Founder
EffectiveDefense.org
4550 Warwick Blvd 508
Kansas City, MO 64111
m: 408-655-4567
[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.
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
tel. (+31) (0)30 3200238
(ma, di, do)
mob. (+31) (0)6 31786379 (wo,
vrij)
Mariaplaats 3
3511 LH Utrecht
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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