On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Keegan Peterzell <keegan.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Ziko van Dijk <zvand...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Actually, I am quite appalled by the article. Whether one wants to see >> something positive in pirating or not, the Wikimedia servers are not meant >> for this purpose (for good reasons). Breaking rules and taking abuse of an >> opportunity is not a goal by itself. >> Kind regards >> Ziko >> > > Call it what you want, but the world is changed when ordinary people who > are just trying to do ordinary things > > have a roadblock put in front of them. This is that kind of thing, and > it's the "revolution" power of the distributed internet. We can shut them > down, but Angolans are going to find another way to do the very things that > those with full access to the internet take for granted. As Jason says, we > should take great caution and give deep thought before taking a binary side. > > Oh, and I'm not condoning the behavior or use of Wikimedia servers, but I do think that the entire situation is much more nuanced than the simplicity of "that's wrong." -- ~Keegan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan This is my personal email address. Everything sent from this email address is in a personal capacity. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
