Dear all
As some of you may be aware, Wikimedia UK and the Wikimedia Foundation have
been working together over the past months to advocate for changes to the
UK Online Safety Bill which is currently going through Parliament. Today,
we launched an open letter (with a consortium of signatories from the
civil society sector) and would appreciate the wider Wikimedia community's
support in amplifying this through your social media channels, if that
feels appropriate.
Here are some possible tweets that you may want to send - with the first
linking directly to the open letter and the bottom two linking to a blog
post, published yesterday (which now links to the open letter):
Click to tweet: <https://ctt.ac/KubhY> I signed the @Wikimedia Foundation
and @WikimediaUK's open letter to UK government leaders asking to exempt
@Wikipedia and other public interest projects from the Online Safety Bill.
If you care about free knowledge, join me. #ForFreeKnowledge
https://wikimedia.org.uk/2023/06/online-safety-bill-open-letter/
Click to tweet: <https://ctt.ac/3e1T0> The UK's Online Safety Bill is a
threat to @Wikipedia and other public interest projects. I join the
@Wikimedia Foundation and @WikimediaUK's call for changes to the Bill
before it becomes law. #ForFreeKnowledge
https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/protect-the-futu…
<https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/protect-the-future-of-wikipedia-in-the-uk-9c1bbc5d039a?source=friends_link&sk=a588e0080277c6c98d3d360d123896d6>
Click to tweet: <https://ctt.ac/B6g3l> I share the @Wikimedia Foundation
and @WikimediaUK's concerns about what the UK's Online Safety Bill means
for the future of @Wikipedia. Here's why. #ForFreeKnowledge
https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/protect-the-futu…
With many thanks
Lucy
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Lucy Crompton-Reid (she/her)
Chief Executive