On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 at 09:49, Erik Moeller <eloque...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I hope that some preliminary contingency plans exist or are being > developed, and I'm sure that the movement-wide debate will widen if > the US continues its downward slide into authoritarianism. > I agree with Erik. Even under the Obama administration, there were threats to the existence of the movement, such as SOPA [1] which lead to a blackout [2]. One can extrapolate from current events that these threats could well get larger and more frequent, rather than smaller and less frequent, should someone in the US Government decide to focus their attention on attacking Wikipedia and free knowledge. It would be prudent to create a contingency plan which includes an exploration of other options for a location of operation for the Wikimedia Foundation and/or its servers, with their advantages and disadvantages. I personally wouldn't necessarily advocate for making the plan public; that would be ideal, but I'd be comforted merely to know it exists. On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 at 23:36, Joseph Seddon <josephsed...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe options are going to be explored for sustainability but right now > legally speaking the US is the best jurisdiction for hosting us now and the > foreseeable future. > I agree with this too. For now, the United States remains the best place for the organisation to operate out of, and a move should not be actively considered. Dan [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA#Wikimedia_community _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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>
