[Foundation-l] 2010-11 Annual Plan Now Posted to FoundationWebsite

[Thomas Dalton]

On 3 July 2010 18:53, Noein <pronoein at gmail.com> wrote:
> If something of similar consequences as the kill switch [1] were
> triggered against the WMF in USA, would it still be accessible for the
> rest of the world?

The "kill switch" idea, as I understand it, is about killing the
internet entirely, not one site. If the US government shuts down all
the parts of the internet that are under its jurisdiction, the
internet would pretty collapse worldwide (due to so much of the DNS
infrastructure, for example, being in the US) and Wikipedia would go
with it.

If the US government took action to shut down just the WMF sites then
there isn't much that could be done - the WMF is a US registered, US
based organisation and most of the servers are on US soil. I think
even the servers in Amsterdam could be forcibly shut down, since they
are still owned by a US organisation. The US authorities can't do
anything about copies of the server dumps by people not under US
jurisdiction, though, so a new WMF incorporated and based somewhere
else could be created and take over.