[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Re: FUD&Chilling Effects&Filters&Outlawing

[Deryck Chan]

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From: "Deryck Chan" <deryckchan at gmail.com>
Date: Sep 25, 2012 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] FUD&Chilling Effects&Filters&Outlawing
To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>

This is old news. This is what we've been protesting against all throughout
the SOPA/ACTA related actions. Yes it is alarming, but we've been aware of
them for years.
On Sep 25, 2012 9:22 PM, "ENWP Pine" <deyntestiss at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Some of what that article describes is absurd and would run counter to
> principles that I think Europe generally supports. I think most of us would
> agree that the internet can be used for dangerous and fraudulent purposes
> and that governments have a role in protecting the public from genuine
> danger and fraud, but those efforts need to be done in a reasonable and
> balanced way that respects important liberty principles that underpin
> governments that are "of the people, by the people, for the people."
>
> I hope that WMF Legal takes a look at this article and evaluates how much
> of it is truthful. Hopefully that article is more rumor than truth.
>
> Pine
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> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:52:30 +0300
> From: Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] FUD&Chilling Effects&Filters&Outlawing
> Anonymity&Unrestricted Surveillance of the Nets 'Alive and Well in the
> European Union'!!!
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> http://www.edri.org/cleanIT
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> I challenge any knowledgeable and clueful person to peruse that above
> link and not reel back in horror and incredulity... Can somebody either
> confirm that people in WMF are aware of the above Charlie Foxtrot;
> or failing that, bump it up to people who are qualified and empowered
> to consider how WMF should approach the situation. Would be nice to
> hear that the above report is inaccurate, unwarrantedly alarmist, or that
> the proposals will come to nothing in any case, but...
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