Wikipedia, I imagine, has a large following of users that are unaware of SOPA; their blackout will introduce the issue to an enormous number of Internet users. I don't think an OSM blackout would have a similar effect.
Many map nerds would no doubt be inconvenienced, however. Joseph 2012/1/16 Matthias Meißer <dig...@arcor.de>: > Hi, > > first of all, sorry for bringing political discussions to the community, as > I always understand OSM as a political neutral space (we do creating maps, > nothing else). > But some of you might noticed that _Wikipedia will make a downtime_ at > Wednesday as a form of protest against the Stop Piracy Act (SOPA) > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOPA > > As this law endangers the creation and exchange of free material, too > ('shutdown OSM/jamendo/.../ as it seems that they copied my property!'), I > would like to ask, if we might support the wikipedia action? > > I have no idea, if this could be technicaly done by the Admins, or what kind > of protest (complete shutdown, serving demo tiles, locking database, ... a > banner) would be accepted by the most of us. I just like to notify you, and > maybe start a discussion. > > thanks > Matthias > (user:!i!) > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
