[Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

[Thomas Morton]

On 4 October 2011 23:19, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Neil Babbage <neil at thebabbages.com> wrote:
> > Yes they are able to strike, but that still doesn't give them the right
> > (legal or moral) to shut down property that doesn't belong to them. In
> > any case, if the servers are located in the US then US law applies to
> > their management.
>
> The WMF can override the local community if they want.
>
> The WMF is very unlikely to approve of this, as that would be
> influencing legislation.
>
> Jimbo has already stated support FWIW.

Tom