On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:14 AM, <wiki-list(a)phizz.demon.co.uk> wrote:
bharris(a)wikimedia.org wrote:
This is inserting a conspiracy theory where
one does not exist.
The English Wikipedia community voted on the blackout and directed it into
existence, not the Foundation. We merely facilitated.
The proposal was floated by Jimmy Wales on the 10th of december, 1 day after a Creative
Commons Board meeting, on which he sits alongside the mother-in-law of Sergy Brin
(Google), and on which sit other representatives of other internet mega-corporations that
derive profit from user uploaded contents much of which is pirated, or who make money from
advertising on pirate sites.
I don't know what "other representatives" you could be referring to.
On the 14th of December Creative Commons was also
calling for a blackout/action over SOPA.
I wrote the December 14 post and an earlier one on the subject
November 11, see
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/30836 and
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/30375 respectively and started
the conversation inside CC about joining other blackouts in January.
Nobody on the CC board prompted these things. They were notified and
didn't give any pushback to CC staff AFAICT.
Whether you realize it or not you were manipulated by
mega-corporations to stick it to the musicians, photographers, and authors, so that said
corporations could better profit from the theft of their works.
It is true that I did not wear a tinfoil hat continuously throughout
the period above.
Mike