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

[John Vandenberg]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Sue Gardner <sgardner at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 22 January 2012 08:30, 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?
>
> I thought we had already discussed this here, but maybe it was only
> discussed on the SOPA pages on-wiki?

I havent seen it mentioned on the mailing lists, and I dont recall
reading it in the IRC office hours.

I didnt see all of the discussion on enwiki.  Does someone have a link
to the enwiki discussion about engaging a lobby firm?

The first mention I saw was on Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump&diff=65523806&oldid=65523798

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John Vandenberg