On 3 July 2010 18:53, Noein <prono...@gmail.com> wrote: > If something of similar consequences as the kill switch [1] were > triggered against the WMF in USA, would it still be accessible for the > rest of the world?
The "kill switch" idea, as I understand it, is about killing the internet entirely, not one site. If the US government shuts down all the parts of the internet that are under its jurisdiction, the internet would pretty collapse worldwide (due to so much of the DNS infrastructure, for example, being in the US) and Wikipedia would go with it. If the US government took action to shut down just the WMF sites then there isn't much that could be done - the WMF is a US registered, US based organisation and most of the servers are on US soil. I think even the servers in Amsterdam could be forcibly shut down, since they are still owned by a US organisation. The US authorities can't do anything about copies of the server dumps by people not under US jurisdiction, though, so a new WMF incorporated and based somewhere else could be created and take over. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
