On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:03 AM, MZMcBride <z(a)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