[Wikimedia-l] WMF response to PRISM?

[Samuel Klein]

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 7:19 PM, David Cuenca <dacuetu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Sj, thank you very much for supporting taking a stand. I would like however
> to expand the concept of "keep the web open". The reason is that even if
> the web is open, the users accessing it still might face consequences.
> Surveillance doesn't attack to the freedom of speach, it attacks to the
> freedom of thought.

You are right that we need something more than just an "open" Web: we
need one without single points of failure that minimizes the ability
for intermediaries to restrict access - both reading and contributing.

As I wrote previously, the ability to read and contribute anonymously
(or at least pseudonymously) is an essential part of this.  And that
is something that Wikimedia projects, unlike many widespread sources
and sinks for knowledge, have fought for since the beginning.

SJ