Thomas Morton, 05/10/2011 12:31: > On 5 October 2011 11:20, church.of.emacs.ml >> Are you seriously comparing that italien law to the proposed image filter? >> >> Are you aware of the principle of proportionality? What might be okay to >> do against a law that would kill Wikipedia is different from what is >> okay to do against piece of software that would most likely have only >> minor effects for the reader. >> > > A quote: > > The problem, of course, with the principle of proportionality is that > usually it is invoked by one of the stakeholders, who blithely misses the > issue - which is that they are disagreeing over the consequences. > > The point being; for these hypothetical Wikipedians running such a protest > the consequence of an image filter may not match your own view...
I agree with Tobias that this is a red herring. I'd like to add that despite the "us vs. them" feeling (WMF against the community and so on), I don't think anoyone can miss the difference between a "foreign" organization part of your own movement (and which runs your website) and the government of your country, with regard to effective actions required. We also have a small precedent, ace.wiki asking readers to boycott Wikipedia, an obvious absurd reverted by the global community (long story short). Nemo _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
