Speaking from North America, I've been disappointed that I have
NOT seen huge banners warning the international public of the threats
this poses -- even to the future existence of civilization. I'm serious
about the latter: Both former US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara
and Daniel Ellsberg (of "Pentagon Papers" fame) have said that as long
as large nuclear arsenals exist, it is only a matter of time before some
misunderstanding leads to a nuclear war killing at least a third of
humanity -- primarily in the Northern Hemisphere. However, Ellsberg
further says that such an event will almost certainly lead to a nuclear
winter as a result of which 98% of the survivors will starve to death.
I've estimated over a 10% chance of such an event in the next 40 years.[1]
Media organizations like Wikipedia are part of the solution to
this and virtually every other substantive problem facing humanity
today, in my judgment: Progress on every substantive issue I can think
of is blocked, because every countermeasure threatens someone with
substantive control over the media. People with power are threatened by
the Wikimedia project, because it's a source of information they cannot
control.[2]
If you see things that people outside Europe can do, please let
me know. So far, I'm primarily focused on anti-nuke work and improving
the media where I live.
Thanks for all your hard work in support of the Wikimedia project.
Spencer Graves, PhD
member of the Boards of KKFI.org, the Friends of Community Media
(ourfcm.org) and PeaceWorksKC.org
and
Founder
EffectiveDefense.org
4550 Warwick Blvd 508
Kansas City, MO 64111
m: 408-655-4567
[1] Wikiversity, "Time to extinction of civilization"
(https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Time_to_extinction_of_civilization).
[2] See other articles in Wikiversity, "Category:Freedom and abundance"
(https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Category:Freedom_and_abundance)
On 2019-02-07 07:04, Eva Lepik wrote:
So, to be clear: are we all waiting for a Great Leader to step up,
start coordinating and handing out the orders according to his/her
master plan?
Or shall WE start coordinating here and now, what shall WE do, quickly?
This is our Internet which will be ruined.
Regards,
Eva
On 07.02.2019 13:52, Jan Ainali wrote:
I believe a coordinated effort could have good effects. The proposal
as it is right now (there will be trilogues next week that may change
it) is so bad that it might be possible to sway some MEP votes to
completely block the directive.
Best regards,
Jan Ainali
Den tors 7 feb. 2019 kl 12:14 skrev Sandra Rientjes - Wikimedia
Nederland <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
In reply to Eva's question ("Do your chapters have an action
plan?"). No, at the moment WMNL does not have a plan yet. Will
there be coordinated action by Wikimedia affiliates like last year?
Sandra Rientjes
Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland
tel. (+31) (0)30 3200238 (ma, di, do)
mob. (+31) (0)6 31786379 (wo, vrij)
www.wikimedia.nl <http://www.wikimedia.nl>
Mariaplaats 3
3511 LH Utrecht
Op wo 6 feb. 2019 om 22:56 schreef Eva Lepik <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
Dear all,
the conclusion to the copyright directive is approaching. The
outcome
seems to be horrible, as described for example here:
https://twitter.com/paul_keller/status/1092912540194099200
or here: https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/article-13-worse/
Implementation of article 11 (link tax) and article 13 (content
filtering) will have a severely negative impact on the digital
environment. We don't know how much the link tax will affect
the
references in Wikipedia and Wikidata yet. As such, we cannot
predict how
much poorer the new liability regime will make our digital
environment.
The numerous outcries of digital rights organizations
regarding the loss
of freedom of speech and expression should be our concern, too.
The final plenary vote will most probably take place in March
or April,
some weeks before the elections of the next European
Parliament. It
will be the last chance to stop this disaster, after that we
shall be
left with damage control. Do your chapters have an action plan?
Best regards
Eva Lepik
Wikimedia Eesti
chairperson
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