Just to say that I asked on IRC and there is no technical issue with having a UK-only petition appeal appear on the page, if we can get a petition up and potentially get as much consensus for it as we can in the meantime.
-- Harry (User:Jarry1250) On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Alison M. Wheeler < [email protected]> wrote: > > One thing to make clear when talking to anyone about this is that whilst > SOPA/PIPA are proposals in the USA, they are *explicitly* targeted to > "foreign" websites. And though the DNS aspect may have been delayed at > present it is still in there and will be re-introduced at a later stage. > This permits them to block DNS resolution for .COM .NET .ORG and some other > TLDs, no matter that the owner of the website/webservice concerned may be > in the UK (aka not in the USA), and the servers may be in the UK and the > users may be in the UK *and even if geo-IP is used to ensure that only > non-USA people can access the site/service then SOPA/PIPA would *still* > permit that site to be blocked / taken offline. > > Also, given that even .UK .IT .NO and all the rest of the ccTLDs refer > back to the dozen of so root DNS servers, they too could be poisened under > the draft bill as it exists. So make no bones about it, these proposals > *will* affect just about every country in the world if they go through. > > AlisonW > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >
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