There have been drastic changes to the CISPA language, (and here "drastic" is an understatement). Not only have they removed the language that would have made Wikimedia look like right prat -- hooray...ish -- but the emphasis on the agreement between large scale traffic sites giving their userinformation over in a quid pro quo fashion, has shifted towards language enabling them to deputise (security clearances in an expedited fashion) small time hacker collectives to conduct activities which might or might not be illegal, as long as it is for the good of the country, and as long as they can be relied to keep their mouths shut.
At this point I think *any* action by Wikimedia would be misinterpreted. There is no-longer any text there that would affect Wikimedia directly. There may be an argument that the bill as a whole is still detrimental to the internet as a whole and to the United States economy, and by that route to Wikimedia. But that is such an involved chain, that we would certainly be accused of being political, if Wikimedia protested in any shape or form, on those grounds. Assuming the draft prevails of course. That is a gamble. I think the backdoor option we have is to pressure Obama to Veto the bill. He needs a win against Congress, and afte the SOPA affair this could well be his, He certainly could activate all the people who phoned in on the SOPA thing, if he wants to. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
