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

[Mono]

Actually, they're pretty similar. Don't forget that Google and Sergey
Brin's foundation are major income sources.

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Philippe Beaudette
<philippe at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> You trust GOOGLE's interests to align sufficiently with ours, to the
> extent that you're willing to cede government affairs to them?
>
> pb
>
> On Sun Jan 22 12:48:50 2012, geni wrote:
> > On 22 January 2012 18:00, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I'm worried that we may be getting in trouble.
> >>> I don't know about US laws, but are charitable organizations allowed
> >>> to meddle in political lobbying?
> >>>
> >>> I'd appreciate if more knowledgeable people could give us some light.
> >>
> >> It's perfectly allowed, and we're allowed to take positions on
> >> specific bills - it is just that lobbying cannot be a 'substantial
> >> part' of the WMF's activities unless it switches its charity type.
> >> (Googling around, I was reading
> >>
> http://www.asaecenter.org/Resources/whitepaperdetail.cfm?ItemNumber=12202
> >> and http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/eotopicp97.pdf )
> >>
> >
> > What is highly questionable is if it a remotely worthwhile use of
> > money. If Google's lobbyists can't impact SOPA and the like what makes
> > the foundation think our can?
> >
> >
>
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