I may write this biased message from my place of enunciation: a country that has been threatened for several days directly by the decisions of the President of the United States.
Only if you were a follower of Trump would you see unnecessary a proactive defense of potential damage to people both from our community and the Foundation staff. Personally, reading a statement from Katherine Maher let me know that in front of threats, people in your movement will react. Let's not be deluded, Trump's decision-making route over the past few weeks (outside privacy, airport reviews) will sooner or later lead to a threat to the Wikimedia Foundation. And we must be prepared.
And please, let's leave the false dilemma that as a Wikimedia movement we should not take political positions because of Wikipedia neutrality. They are different things clearly.
2017-02-03 6:08 GMT-06:00 Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk:
On 3 February 2017 at 00:00, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
I guess this is referring to https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/30/knowledge-knows-no-boundaries/.
There were speakers and delegates at Wikimania 2012, in Washington DC, who would not have been able to attend under the current ban.
I therefore have no problem with the WMF speaking out against such a ban; indeed I applaud them for doing so.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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