Wikimedia supports American Censorship Day

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/11/15/wikimedia-supports-american-censorship-day/

by gbelote • 15 years ago

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willyt• 15 years ago

Here's an idea, Wikipedia could redirect to "Sorry this site is not accessible due to an enforcement action under the Stop Online Piracy Act. (This is a test)" That would start a debate in the mainstream pretty quickly...

nextparadigms• 15 years ago

They could just use the embedded code from americancensorship.org that http://techdirt.com seems to be using as well. It seems pretty effective (and scary) to me.

neilk2• 15 years ago

It was proposed to the English Wikipedia community (late yesterday) and as of now I don't think we have consensus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposa...

By my reckoning, so far at least half the commenters think this would break the "Neutral Point of View" policy. I personally disagree with that, but as an employee of the WMF it's not my place to tell them what to do.

dapyx• 15 years ago

They did something like that for a day on Italian Wikipedia when they discussed in the Italian Parliament a law which, in the case when someone is offended (even if the facts are true!), if a website doesn't respond in 48 hours to the request of removal, the website would have been given a 10,000 euro fine.

toyg• 15 years ago

And it was quite successful, the law was basically mothballed.

onosendai• 15 years ago

For one of the largest and most important sites containing user generated content out there, Wikipedia has been strangely quiet on this issue.

Go to eff.org or mozilla.org, for example, and you'll find prominent banners raising awareness to the issue. Go to en.wikipedia.org and the only thing you'll find is a huge picture of Jimmy Wales asking for your money. Surely if they can plaster his picture on every single Wikipedia page for months on end like they also did last year, they could also spare a day or two to run an unobtrusive banner on SOPA. Especially since, as Jay Walsh correctly states, the bill could have "disastrous effects for Wikipedia and its sister projects"

JoshTriplett• 15 years ago

If they support this, then why not put the "stop censorship" banner across their logo like the other supporting sites?

Wikimedia supports American Censorship Day

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