Hi all,
there is a petition [1] being circulated against the US government allegedly trying to defund the Open Technology Fund, "an independent non-profit organization committed to advancing global Internet freedom [that] supports projects focused on counteracting repressive censorship and surveillance, enabling citizens worldwide to exercise their fundamental human rights online." The petition has some big names on it, such as the EFF, Freedom House and ISC. I'm curious if this is something that the Wikimedia Foundation or affiliates have investigated and have a stance on?
Hey Gergo,
Looking at the page both Katherine and the WMF have signed (as individual and org respectively).
Seddon
On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 10:05 PM Tisza Gergő gtisza@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
there is a petition [1] being circulated against the US government allegedly trying to defund the Open Technology Fund, "an independent non-profit organization committed to advancing global Internet freedom [that] supports projects focused on counteracting repressive censorship and surveillance, enabling citizens worldwide to exercise their fundamental human rights online." The petition has some big names on it, such as the EFF, Freedom House and ISC. I'm curious if this is something that the Wikimedia Foundation or affiliates have investigated and have a stance on?
[1] https://saveinternetfreedom.tech/ _______________________________________________ Publicpolicy mailing list Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 11:07 PM Joseph Seddon jseddon@wikimedia.org wrote:
Looking at the page both Katherine and the WMF have signed (as individual and org respectively).
Oops, thanks (⌐■_■)┐ I was looking at the "all organizations" subpage, looks like it's accidentally omitted there.
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