So will there be a Wikipedia blackout? PS. June 4 is the perfect date for such protests :)
On 3 June 2013 23:42, Tilman Bayer <[email protected]> wrote: > The EFF reports that this announcement by Taiwanese Wikimedians does > appear to have had an effect: > > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/taiwanese-users-thwart-government-plans-introduce-internet-blacklist-law > > "Taiwanese users were going to stage an Internet black out on Tuesday > June 4th. Several websites, including Wikipedia Taiwan and Mozilla > Taiwan pledged to go dark in order to raise awareness. ... After > several news outlets reported that the new initiative was akin to > mainland China’s “Great Firewall,” the Taiwanese intellectual property > office made an effort to reject the comparison ... In the face of > these criticisms and the planned blackout, the Taiwan Intellectual > Property Office abandoned this severe copyright law." > > > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Ted Chien <[email protected]> > wrote: > > My dear colleagues, > > > > Recently on May 21 the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office has announced > > that they will amend the Copyright Act to demand local ISPs to block > > illegal contents on foreign websites, just like the SOPA bill in USA last > > year. For more information, you can read the following news reports: > > > > Focus Taiwan: > > http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aall/201305210035.aspx > > > > ZDNet: > > > http://www.zdnet.com/cn/taiwans-copyright-act-amendment-proposal-comes-under-fire-7000015943/ > > > > Now there are many Taiwan netizens protesting the bill: > > > > > http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/05/26/netizens-fear-copyright-amendment-will-bring-web-filter-system-to-taiwan/ > > > > But today we just see an news that TIPO just ignored these protests and > > insist that this bill will not harm the net freedom and rights of general > > users: > > > > http://newtalk.tw/news/2013/05/28/36854.html (it's in Chinese, you may > use > > Google translate to read the news.) > > > > Indeed we should protect the copyright, but to ask ISPs to block websites > > is too over-reaction. > > > > We Wikimedia Taiwan is now against the bill and has just released an > > Chinese announcement on our official website to explain why we against > the > > bill and ask the government to stop the act: > > > > http://bit.ly/ZbvTX0 > > > > We also started an discussion on zh.wp to ask the community if we could > put > > the announcement as an global site notice, we even think about blackout > > zh.wp for 24 hours (the date is still in discussion): > > > > http://goo.gl/fXi8g > > > > This is because according to Alexa.com (http://Alexa.com), Wikipedia is > now > > the top 10 website in Taiwan. To blackout Wikipedia in Taiwan should get > > the attention of TIPO and has some effects. > > > > My questions are: > > > > * Could we ask for blackout Wikipedia (not just zh.wp) ONLY for Taiwan > IP? > > (Some users from China hope this blackout will not effect them) > > * If we could not blackout Wikipedia only for Taiwan IP, could we ask to > > blackout zh.wp? (from what we have discussed on zh.wp, the Chinese > > community has agreed on such blackout, but the date is still on > discussion) > > * If we could implement such blackout, how soon it can be done? > > * What suggestions from you that we should do as an local Chapter? > > > > Thanks and Regards, > > Ted Chien > > Chairman > > Wikimedia Taiwan > > -- > > Blog: htttp://htchien.tw (http://htchien.tw/) > > Facebook: http://facebook.com/htchien > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/htchien > > LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/htchien > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > > -- > Tilman Bayer > Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) > Wikimedia Foundation > IRC (Freenode): HaeB > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
