On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:03 AM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote:
> How does the Wikimedia Foundation intend to protect the rights of > users around the world when it will have a nearly impossible time of > protecting Americans, much less non-Americans? U.S. courts and the U.S. > Congress have made it very clear that spying on non-Americans is completely > acceptable, so when I read that the aim is to protect users worldwide, I'm > pretty skeptical. A good point. Again, in the case of Kazakhstan, that regime – which by general agreement is orders of magnitude more abusive than the US government – reportedly received nothing but praise from the Wikimedia Foundation.[1] This would have been worrying coming from anyone else, but was all the more so coming from Jimmy Wales. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-March/077053.html _______________________________________________ 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>
