Dear all, Thanks for the action taken.
For all those participants who need an academic analysis on ‘How SOPA violates the First Amendment’, please see comments[1] from Laurence Tribe (a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School). [1] http://www.scribd.com/doc/75153093/Tribe-Legis-Memo-on-SOPA-12-6-11-1 Cheers, mwjames On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Markus Krötzsch <mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote: > Dear all, > > many of you will already be aware of the upcoming global protest against > two proposed United States laws, called SOPA and PIPA. As Wikimedia put > it: "These bills endanger free speech both in the United States and > abroad, setting a frightening precedent of Internet censorship for the > world." More background information on why this is a threat to free and > open wiki sites is provided by Wikipedia [1]. > > Semantic MediaWiki is taking these matters most seriously, and will join > Wikipedia and many other sites [2] in a global strike against these > proposals. This means that content of semantic-mediawiki.org will not be > available from tomorrow (Wed, Jan 18) morning to Thursday morning. > > If you are a US citizen, you may want to take direct action, e.g., using > the Web forms that will be provided on striking sites. > > Best regards, > > Markus > > [1] > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout > [2] http://sopastrike.com/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-user mailing list > semediawiki-u...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
