[Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia

[Mateus Nobre]

> What did WMF do when WikiLeaks domains were seized and its fundraising
> payment processors (PayPal, Visa, MasterCard) were cut off? Did WMF protest
> against Internet censorship? No.

Wikimedia defends itself, not the ''justice in America and worldwide''. Remember we are not a political party. But we have to defend ourselves.
It's not against internet censorship. It's pretty clear, It's about defending us.

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> From: emijrp at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:08:38 +0100
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia
> 
> Hi all;
> 
> Looks like Wikimedia Foundation is very worried about censorship and the
> cut off of fundraising payment processors. Now.
> 
> What did WMF do when WikiLeaks domains were seized and its fundraising
> payment processors (PayPal, Visa, MasterCard) were cut off? Did WMF protest
> against Internet censorship? No.
> 
> WMF did nothing. Well, Wikipedia community wrote this disclaimer "WikiLeaks
> is not affiliated with Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation"[1] on the
> top, and turned a blind eye.
> 
> Now it is your turn. Enjoy.
> 
> Regards,
> emijrp
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks
> 
> 2011/12/14 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Jay Walsh <jwalsh at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > > Today the Wikimedia Foundation posted an important update on how the Stop
> > > Online Piracy Act (SOPA) legislation being considered in DC this week
> > > threatens an open and free web, and particularly how it threatens
> > Wikipedia.
> > >
> > > The post is authored by WMF's General Counsel, Geoff Brigham, and can be
> > > found here:
> > >
> > http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/13/how-sopa-will-hurt-the-free-web-and-wikipedia/
> > >
> >
> > "Under the new bill, there is one significant improvement.  The new
> > version exempts U.S. based companies – including the Wikimedia
> > Foundation – from being subject to a litigation regime in which rights
> > owners could claim that our site was an “Internet site dedicated to
> > theft of U.S. property.”  Such a damnation against Wikimedia could
> > have easily resulted in demands to cut off our fundraising payment
> > processors.   The new version now exempts U.S. sites like ours."
> >
> > I am genuinely not anti-american. The logic here does escape me though.
> >
> > --
> > --
> > Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
> >
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