[Foundation-l] Politico: "Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa"

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Kim Bruning <kim at bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa
>        http://www.politico.com/morningtech/0112/morningtech377.html
>
> Interesting. Any details?
>
> sincerely,
>        Kim Bruning
>

I suggest they not aim primarily against SOPA and PIPA. I think most
of the Internet is pretty shoulder against shoulder on those. What can
split ranks is OPEN. And that is a really pernicious danger, because it
isn't so ham-handedly phrased. I mean if things go really badly, and
OPEN is completely ignored, it isn't hyperbole to say it could totally
destroy what Wikimedia is about. Can somebody pass this on to people
who work on these issues.


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