There are two steps that strike me as obvious. Inform the committee of the community's concerns and go to the press.
Here in the UK when a union gets a majority vote for strike action it sometimes focuses management's attention and prompts concessions. Going straight from such a vote to taking action would in my view lose a useful opportunity to let those promoting SOPA from dropping or amending it before we take action. WSC Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:12:34 -0800 > From: Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and > Wikipedia > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Before anyone blanks the en.wiki Main Page, please remember that the > bill is still in committee. It could still be heavily modified or > rejected completely before going to the floor. If it does go to the > floor, it probably wouldn't be until January, so there's still some time > for other, less-dramatic approaches in the meantime. > > Ryan Kaldari > > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
