On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Quite contrariwise. The last time the legislation affected mostly the USA, but the block was global. I would be interested to hear any logical argument that would suggest our position would be strengthened by doing a purely USA action to counter something with global implications. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
