Hi Andy and all
Yes, I am drafting Wikimedia UK's response to the consultation, in discussion with Jimmy Wales and the Wikimedia Foundation (although our formal submissions will be separate). I'm also in touch with ORG about the Bill, although not specifically about their petition. Jim Killock, CEO of ORG, will be at a meeting I'm convening on Monday with several other individuals and organisations where we will be discussing this, amongst other things.
Andy, I haven't seen a message about this to WMUK but happy to follow up off-list!
Best Lucy
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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 16:46:35 +0100 From: Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk Subject: [Publicpolicy] ORG UK campaign & petition mention Wikipedia To: Publicpolicy Group for Wikimedia publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: <CABiXOE=BRrEVcXfrXVucH1Xc6kHG8r18ALf7NogzG3jza= b8eA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
ORG UK are objecting to the UK government's proposed Online Safety Bill; there's a petition [1] and they say:
"the appointment of a state speech regulator - appointed and directed by government - will create a sprawling bureaucracy of speech police. The Home Office and the DCMS will direct what speech must be removed, filtered and monitored... the Bill’s provisions to block websites, apps, or services which refuse to cooperate with the speech regulator’s orders could put household names like Wikipedia, Reddit and Tumblr in the crosshairs"
Does WMF have a position on this? Has there been any contact with ORG? [I've put the same question to WMUK, separately]
[1] https://action.openrightsgroup.org/stop-state-censorship-online-speech
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Message: 2 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 19:21:40 +0100 From: Owen Blacker owen@openrightsgroup.org Subject: [Publicpolicy] Re: ORG UK campaign & petition mention Wikipedia To: Publicpolicy Group for Wikimedia publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: <CALh-06mnPYkHNeg0Sk6GNJUU-qBD1JCk2eF_3xWa= z-jUvXuig@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="00000000000034316b05cb0741fa"
For what it's worth, this is the first I've heard of it, as both a member of ORG's Advisory Council and a member of this email list 😕
Ar Iau, 2 Medi 2021 am 16:47 Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk ysgrifennodd:
ORG UK are objecting to the UK government's proposed Online Safety Bill; there's a petition [1] and they say:
"the appointment of a state speech regulator - appointed and directed by government - will create a sprawling bureaucracy of speech police. The Home Office and the DCMS will direct what speech must be removed, filtered and monitored... the Bill’s provisions to block websites, apps, or services which refuse to cooperate with the speech regulator’s orders could put household names like Wikipedia, Reddit and Tumblr in the crosshairs"
Does WMF have a position on this? Has there been any contact with ORG? [I've put the same question to WMUK, separately]
[1]
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/stop-state-censorship-online-speech
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Publicpolicy mailing list -- publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to publicpolicy-leave@lists.wikimedia.org
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