On 2019-02-07 09:01, L.Gelauff wrote:
You must forgive me for overlooking something perhaps obvious, but I
somehow missed your steps leading us from this copyright directive to
nuclear winter.
Thanks for the question. The key obstacle to progress on this and
other issues is the control that global elites have over the media. The
"Colored revolutions" that tore down the Iron Curtain in 1989 and the Arab
Spring were organized in part by cracks in elite control over the media.
That's why Wikipedia is blocked in Turkey and partially blocked in China,
and I believe that's a major driver behind the efforts in the European
Union to tame the internet, including Wikipedia. Two of the "Big Three"
broadcasting networks in the US were purchased by major companies in the
nuclear industry in the US in 1986 and 1995. People who think they benefit
from the world's large nuclear arsenals don't want the rest of us to be
able to get honest, reliable information about the threats posed by such
arsenals, and the entire Wikimedia system threatens their social status, I
believe.
Make sense?
Thanks,
Spencer Graves
Lodewijk
On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 6:48 AM Spencer Graves <
spencer.graves(a)effectivedefense.org> wrote:
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.
Best regards,
Jan Ainali
Den tors 7 feb. 2019 kl 12:14 skrev Sandra Rientjes - Wikimedia Nederland
<rientjes(a)wikimedia.nl>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
tel. (+31) (0)30 3200238 (ma, di, do)
mob. (+31) (0)6 31786379 (wo, vrij)
www.wikimedia.nl
Mariaplaats 3
3511 LH Utrecht
Op wo 6 feb. 2019 om 22:56 schreef Eva Lepik <eva(a)kodu.ee>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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