On 2019-02-07 09:01, L.Gelauff wrote:
You must forgive me for overlooking something perhaps obvious, but I
somehow missed your steps leading us from this copyright directive to
nuclear winter.
Thanks for the question. The key obstacle to progress on this
and other issues is the control that global elites have over the media.
The "Colored revolutions" that tore down the Iron Curtain in 1989 and
the Arab Spring were organized in part by cracks in elite control over
the media. That's why Wikipedia is blocked in Turkey and partially
blocked in China, and I believe that's a major driver behind the efforts
in the European Union to tame the internet, including Wikipedia. Two of
the "Big Three" broadcasting networks in the US were purchased by major
companies in the nuclear industry in the US in 1986 and 1995. People
who think they benefit from the world's large nuclear arsenals don't
want the rest of us to be able to get honest, reliable information about
the threats posed by such arsenals, and the entire Wikimedia system
threatens their social status, I believe.
Make sense?
Thanks,
Spencer Graves
Lodewijk
On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 6:48 AM Spencer Graves
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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 <http://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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