In the U.S., there is also a strong minority contingent of Libertarians, who tend to be on the right-wing/conservative part of the political spectrum. These are natural allies for both privacy & governmental non-intrunsion. I think that they would welcome WMF joining this legal action.
Yours, Peaceray On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 1:15 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's difficult to overstate how much people love us. We tell them > everything about everything, and we're mostly right and try to stay > neutral. But it's all written by just people! So it's cosy as well. > > With SOPA, we discovered that: when Wikipedia says you suck, you *suck*. > > So I'd expect that this will only look good for us. But I don't claim > to have numbers to this effect. > > On 10 March 2015 at 19:55, Johan Jönsson <brevlis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2015-03-10 8:53 GMT+01:00 Michelle Paulson <mpaul...@wikimedia.org>: > > > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I’m writing to let you know that today the Wikimedia Foundation[1] is > >> filing suit against the National Security Agency > >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency>, the > Department > >> of > >> Justice < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice > >> >, > >> and the U.S. Attorney General > >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General>[2] in > order > >> to challenge certain mass surveillance practices carried out by the U.S. > >> government. We believe these practices are impinging the freedom to > learn, > >> inquire, and explore on Wikimedia sites. > >> > >> Since the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures, we’ve heard concerns from > the > >> community about privacy on Wikipedia. This lawsuit is a step towards > >> addressing the community's justified concerns. We believe that the > >> surveillance methods being employed by the NSA under the authority of > the > >> FISA > >> Amendments Act > >> < > >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act_of_1978_Amendments_Act_of_2008 > >> > > >> negatively impact our users' ability and willingness to participate in > our > >> projects. Today, we fight back. > >> > >> An op-ed > >> < > >> > http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/opinion/stop-spying-on-wikipedia-users.html?_r=0 > >> > > >> by Lila and Jimmy about the lawsuit, and Wikimedia's stance on > government > >> surveillance, appeared in The New York Times this morning. > Additionally, we > >> just published a blog post > >> <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/10/wikimedia-v-nsa/> with more > >> information about the suit. (The post will also up on Meta for > >> translation). > >> > > > > Curious question, by the way: how controversial would you expect this > move > > to be domestically? From e.g. a Swedish perspective, the NSA is an > > intelligence agency of a foreign power and the other mentioned > > organizations are either largely uncontroversial and seen in a positive > > light (Amnesty, PEN, HRW) or unknown, but will it affect how the WMF is > > seen in the US? > > > > //Johan Jönsson > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
