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: 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: 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-future-of-wikipedia-in-the-uk-9c1bbc5d039a?source=friends_link&sk=a588e0080277c6c98d3d360d123896d

Click to tweet: 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-future-of-wikipedia-in-the-uk-9c1bbc5d039a?source=friends_link&sk=a588e0080277c6c98d3d360d123896d6

With many thanks

Lucy

Lucy Crompton-Reid (she/her)

Chief Executive