On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:03 AM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
How does the Wikimedia Foundation intend to protect the rights of users around the world when it will have a nearly impossible time of protecting Americans, much less non-Americans? U.S. courts and the U.S. Congress have made it very clear that spying on non-Americans is completely acceptable, so when I read that the aim is to protect users worldwide, I'm pretty skeptical.
A good point.
Again, in the case of Kazakhstan, that regime – which by general agreement is orders of magnitude more abusive than the US government – reportedly received nothing but praise from the Wikimedia Foundation.[1] This would have been worrying coming from anyone else, but was all the more so coming from Jimmy Wales.
[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-March/077053.html