On 3/11/15 12:03 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
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But more to the point: even if by some miracle, this case were resolved in
2015 with a very explicit federal court order instructing the National
Security Agency to cease mass surveillance, is there anyone who believes
that this will end mass
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 6:40 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Let's hope so. A key point is that the extraordinary overreach of this
surveillance affects everyone.
I am absolutely delighted that the Wikimedia Foundation has taken this
courageous step - precisely because
Hi,
Thanks Subhashish for the update.
Thank you Vishnu, for your leadership of CIS-A2K team over the past two
years in growing the Wikipedia movement across India in various languages.
It is not an easy job to work in the open wikimedia movement as a staff
member of NGO funded by Foundation.
On 11 March 2015 at 08:37, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hoi,
The fact that law suits like this actually happen is a wonderful
improvement in and of itself.
Our aim is to freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Free has many
meaning, one of them is free to share without
Hoi,
Sigh ... being spied upon by the AIVD is not fine. However, they have a
duty to Dutch people and the argument that the NSA is benign to
US-Americans equally applies to the AIVD. We do serve Wikimedia content
from Amsterdam.
The notion that the AIVD is incompetent is based on what ? It is
Hoi,
The fact that law suits like this actually happen is a wonderful
improvement in and of itself.
Our aim is to freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Free has many
meaning, one of them is free to share without consequences.It is not only
about free of cost.In the past we implemented https
Thanks for the news, Michelle, and good luck to the Legal team as this case
moves forward. :)
That being said, I am concerned that the Foundation seems to give unequal
airtime to U.S.-specific issues, while not really doing much about similar
issues in other parts of the world. Much of my
Hoi,
Please read this article by the Volkskrant (in the translation of your
tools) and you see that a review by a judge can be extremely useful. It
also shows that organisations like the NSA can and do lose.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:03 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hi.
I'm of two minds here. I would love for mass surveillance to stop; the
revelations of the past few years are disgusting. However, this lawsuit
has the appearance of being the start of a completely un-winnable case
