[Wikimedia-l] WMF response to PRISM?

[Samuel Klein]

I made some concrete suggestions on that talk page which would
acknowledge the support so far for taking a stand, while making it
clear that our interest is in a global effort to keep the web open,
not something limited to any one nation.

We should feel comfortable making those sorts of global statements
about what matters to our vision of access to the toolchain of
knowledge - not only access to raw data and free tools for recompiling
and viewing it, but the ability to read and contribute anonymously.
Without all of those things, many groups and cross-sections of the
world will be unable to share what they know and discover information
that they need.

Sam.

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Luis Villa <lvilla at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> [+Advocacy advisors]
>
> On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 2:05 AM, Tobias <church.of.emacs.ml at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> Three weeks ago, the foundation asked for community input on the
>> surveillance program PRISM (and perhaps similar programs that have
>> surfaced since).
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PRISM
>>
>> To quote from that page: "We will consider all feedback, but, because
>> events are moving quickly, we feel we need to make a decision on this by
>> June 21, 2013."
>>
>> Has there been any response yet? Surely evaluating all the feedback
>> cannot take longer than two weeks...?
>>
>
> It did take time. The feedback was quite inconclusive, and many of the
> options for action had a variety of flaws, so trying to decide what to do
> next was difficult.
>
> On Friday, we gave a quick summary on the talk page:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:PRISM#Update
>
> I'll probably post some more details on the talk page in the next day or
> two, but suffice to say that we continue to listen for options that are
> aligned with our values and likely to have an impact on the discussion.
>
> Luis
>
>
>
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