Hi all, Personal opinion: The best place to discuss UK-specific text, including for the proposed petition, would be on-wiki at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Proposed_Messages since it would probably have to be a community-driven action rather than a WMUK/WMF one, as with the other non-technical aspects of the blackout (but feel free to disagree with that. ;-) ).
Thanks, Mike On 17 Jan 2012, at 16:19, Harry Burt wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
