Aye, I also only have anecdotal evidince at this point (from my father who has been messaging me and myself) but the comments I've seen in the american press have been 10:1 (higher on tech sites) with generally more thoughtful comments then usual and where there are critiques they are not bad ones. So far it looks like folks are very supportive of it.
This of course comes with the usual caveats of possible filter bubbles and "commenters on american news sites not necessarily equating to a range of american views". James On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 1:15 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's difficult to overstate how much people love us. We tell them > everything about everything, and we're mostly right and try to stay > neutral. But it's all written by just people! So it's cosy as well. > > With SOPA, we discovered that: when Wikipedia says you suck, you *suck*. > > So I'd expect that this will only look good for us. But I don't claim > to have numbers to this effect. > > On 10 March 2015 at 19:55, Johan Jönsson <brevlis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2015-03-10 8:53 GMT+01:00 Michelle Paulson <mpaul...@wikimedia.org>: > > > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I’m writing to let you know that today the Wikimedia Foundation[1] is > >> filing suit against the National Security Agency > >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency>, the > Department > >> of > >> Justice < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice > >> >, > >> and the U.S. Attorney General > >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General>[2] in > order > >> to challenge certain mass surveillance practices carried out by the U.S. > >> government. We believe these practices are impinging the freedom to > learn, > >> inquire, and explore on Wikimedia sites. > >> > >> Since the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures, we’ve heard concerns from > the > >> community about privacy on Wikipedia. This lawsuit is a step towards > >> addressing the community's justified concerns. We believe that the > >> surveillance methods being employed by the NSA under the authority of > the > >> FISA > >> Amendments Act > >> < > >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act_of_1978_Amendments_Act_of_2008 > >> > > >> negatively impact our users' ability and willingness to participate in > our > >> projects. Today, we fight back. > >> > >> An op-ed > >> < > >> > http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/opinion/stop-spying-on-wikipedia-users.html?_r=0 > >> > > >> by Lila and Jimmy about the lawsuit, and Wikimedia's stance on > government > >> surveillance, appeared in The New York Times this morning. > Additionally, we > >> just published a blog post > >> <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/10/wikimedia-v-nsa/> with more > >> information about the suit. (The post will also up on Meta for > >> translation). > >> > > > > Curious question, by the way: how controversial would you expect this > move > > to be domestically? From e.g. a Swedish perspective, the NSA is an > > intelligence agency of a foreign power and the other mentioned > > organizations are either largely uncontroversial and seen in a positive > > light (Amnesty, PEN, HRW) or unknown, but will it affect how the WMF is > > seen in the US? > > > > //Johan Jönsson > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
