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

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Le 22/01/2012 20:00, Thomas Dalton a écrit :

> On 22 January 2012 22:54, Mike Godwin <mnemonic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I welcome your independent research project when you get it started.
>> Or anybody's, really. I suppose the null hypothesis is that one can
>> simply stay silent and wins the issue anyway. Obviously, I tend to
>> fall on the Gandhi/Martin Luther King side of that issue -- at least
>> I'm transparent about my biases.
> I disagree - the null hypothesis is that the gain from lobbying isn't
> worth the cost, not that the gain is zero. (Cost includes far more
> than just monetary cost, of course.)
>
>
You have to compare the cost of lobbying with the cost of not lobbying too.
Censorship is the worst case against our mission ("knowledge for
everyone"), so opposing it is a more worthy stance (less costy) than
consenting it.
These bills would set up a structure capable of the equivalent of the
Great Firewall of China. We're not doing very good in China. That's one
fifth of the planet already off-limit of our mission. There's no reason
to let a country to shut off another whole part of mankind, in
particular when you CAN do something.