[Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

John Vandenberg jayvdb at gmail.com
Tue Oct 4 22:19:01 UTC 2011


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.

-- 
John Vandenberg




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