Umarım çok yankı getirir. Ama Google'ın Twittterin, Facebook'un eyleme katılmak yerine Wikipedia'a "Yürü koçum kim tutar seni" tipindeki desteklerini samimi bulmuyorum.
2012/1/17 Mustafa Akgul <[email protected]>: > > Saygılar > Mustafa Akgul > --------------- > English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout > From the Wikimedia Foundation > Jump to: navigation, search > > To: English Wikipedia Readers and Community > From: Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director > Date: January 16, 2012 > > Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the > English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on > Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia > Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in > the United States—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of > Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate—that, if > passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including > Wikipedia. > > This will be the first time the English Wikipedia has ever staged a public > protest of this nature, and it’s a decision that wasn’t lightly made. Here’s > how it’s been described by the three Wikipedia administrators who formally > facilitated the community’s discussion. From the public statement, signed by > User:NuclearWarfare, User:Risker and User:Billinghurst: > > It is the opinion of the English Wikipedia community that both of > these bills, if passed, would be devastating to the free and open web. > > Over the course of the past 72 hours, over 1800 Wikipedians have > joined together to discuss proposed actions that the community might wish to > take against SOPA and PIPA. This is by far the largest level of participation > in a community discussion ever seen on Wikipedia, which illustrates the level > of concern that Wikipedians feel about this proposed legislation. The > overwhelming majority of participants support community action to encourage > greater public action in response to these two bills. Of the proposals > considered by Wikipedians, those that would result in a “blackout” of the > English Wikipedia, in concert with similar blackouts on other websites > opposed to SOPA and PIPA, received the strongest support. > > On careful review of this discussion, the closing administrators note > the broad-based support for action from Wikipedians around the world, not > just from within the United States. The primary objection to a global > blackout came from those who preferred that the blackout be limited to > readers from the United States, with the rest of the world seeing a simple > banner notice instead. We also noted that roughly 55% of those supporting a > blackout preferred that it be a global one, with many pointing to concerns > about similar legislation in other nations. > > In making this decision, Wikipedians will be criticized for seeming to > abandon neutrality to take a political position. That’s a real, legitimate > issue. We want people to trust Wikipedia, not worry that it is trying to > propagandize them. > > But although Wikipedia’s articles are neutral, its existence is not. As > Wikimedia Foundation board member Kat Walsh wrote on one of our mailing lists > recently, > > We depend on a legal infrastructure that makes it possible for us to > operate. And we depend on a legal infrastructure that also allows other sites > to host user-contributed material, both information and expression. For the > most part, Wikimedia projects are organizing and summarizing and collecting > the world’s knowledge. We’re putting it in context, and showing people how to > make to sense of it. > > But that knowledge has to be published somewhere for anyone to find > and use it. Where it can be censored without due process, it hurts the > speaker, the public, and Wikimedia. Where you can only speak if you have > sufficient resources to fight legal challenges, or, if your views are > pre-approved by someone who does, the same narrow set of ideas already > popular will continue to be all anyone has meaningful access to. > > The decision to shut down the English Wikipedia wasn’t made by me; it was > made by editors, through a consensus decision-making process. But I support > it. > > Like Kat and the rest of the Wikimedia Foundation Board, I have increasingly > begun to think of Wikipedia’s public voice, and the goodwill people have for > Wikipedia, as a resource that wants to be used for the benefit of the public. > Readers trust Wikipedia because they know that despite its faults, > Wikipedia’s heart is in the right place. It’s not aiming to monetize their > eyeballs or make them believe some particular thing, or sell them a product. > Wikipedia has no hidden agenda: it just wants to be helpful. > > That’s less true of other sites. Most are commercially motivated: their > purpose is to make money. That doesn’t mean they don’t have a desire to make > the world a better place—many do!—but it does mean that their positions and > actions need to be understood in the context of conflicting interests. > > My hope is that when Wikipedia shuts down on January 18, people will > understand that we’re doing it for our readers. We support everyone’s right > to freedom of thought and freedom of expression. We think everyone should > have access to educational material on a wide range of subjects, even if they > can’t pay for it. We believe in a free and open Internet where information > can be shared without impediment. We believe that new proposed laws like > SOPA—and PIPA, and other similar laws under discussion inside and outside the > United States—don’t advance the interests of the general public. You can read > a very good list of reasons to oppose SOPA and PIPA here, from the Electronic > Frontier Foundation. > > Why is this a global action, rather than US-only? And why now, if some > American legislators appear to be in tactical retreat on SOPA? > > The reality is that we don’t think SOPA is going away, and PIPA is still > quite active. Moreover, SOPA and PIPA are just indicators of a much broader > problem. All around the world, we're seeing the development of legislation > intended to fight online piracy, and regulate the Internet in other ways, > that hurt online freedoms. Our concern extends beyond SOPA and PIPA: they are > just part of the problem. We want the Internet to remain free and open, > everywhere, for everyone. > > Make your voice heard! > > Bookmark with Facebook Share on Twitter Share on reddit.com Share on Digg.com > > On January 18, we hope you’ll agree with us, and will do what you can to make > your own voice heard. > > Sue Gardner, > Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation > > -- > Mustafa Akgul <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > Linux-sohbet mailing list > [email protected] > https://liste.linux.org.tr/mailman/listinfo/linux-sohbet > Liste kurallari: http://liste.linux.org.tr/kurallar.php _______________________________________________ Linux-sohbet mailing list [email protected] https://liste.linux.org.tr/mailman/listinfo/linux-sohbet Liste kurallari: http://liste.linux.org.tr/kurallar.php
