On 17 April 2012 19:52, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 April 2012 20:32, Todd Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Would it be possible to get enough other sites behind another protest? > > The last one didn't succeed just because of Wikipedia, it succeeded > > because there were so many. > > > I think you're dead wrong there. Wikipedia was the only non-geek site > that gave a damn. We swung the public reaction. Without us it wouldn't > have happened. > > > - d. >
I would suggest that if we are going to do something specific in protest/reaction to CISPA, that it be localised to specifically the USA this time. I believe that we could get attention with the "they didn't listen to us last time" argument, and that, as David says, we were integral to the death of SOPA. However, since this is a USA law, actions should be limited to the USA otherwise the world will quickly become tired of what may be perceived as "overreactions" to "foreign" laws. So (for example purposes) rather than a global blackout on en.wp, a USA-geolocated banner on all language Wikipedias would be more appropriate. Note: I'm not necessarily arguing that we should make a protest, or when, or how, but that *if we do* it should be USA specific. -Liam _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
