We should have technical partners in multiple other jurisdictions that
could help in a crisis, and load bearing infrastructure in at least one of
them, and a plan for how and when to switch. (The walkthrough of what would
be needed for a smooth transfer send most important, and useful for general
reliability planning)
We should also fully support and realize Wikimedia-on-ipfs, similar to what
the internet archive had been doing. (Santhosh has some excellent ideas
there)
🌍🌏🌎🌑
On Wed., Sep. 30, 2020, 5:35 a.m. Dan Garry (Deskana), <djgwiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 at 09:49, Erik Moeller
<eloquence(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I hope that some preliminary contingency plans
exist or are being
developed, and I'm sure that the movement-wide debate will widen if
the US continues its downward slide into authoritarianism.
I agree with Erik. Even under the Obama administration, there were threats
to the existence of the movement, such as SOPA [1] which lead to a blackout
[2]. One can extrapolate from current events that these threats could well
get larger and more frequent, rather than smaller and less frequent, should
someone in the US Government decide to focus their attention on attacking
Wikipedia and free knowledge. It would be prudent to create a contingency
plan which includes an exploration of other options for a location of
operation for the Wikimedia Foundation and/or its servers, with their
advantages and disadvantages. I personally wouldn't necessarily advocate
for making the plan public; that would be ideal, but I'd be comforted
merely to know it exists.
On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 at 23:36, Joseph Seddon <josephseddon(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I believe options are going to be explored for
sustainability but right
now
legally speaking the US is the best jurisdiction
for hosting us now and
the
foreseeable future.
I agree with this too. For now, the United States remains the best place
for the organisation to operate out of, and a move should not be actively
considered.
Dan
[1]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
[2]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA#Wikimedia_comm…
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