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I don't know if anyone cares, but Wikipedians have been discussing a SOPA action for some months now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative ht
by neilk 15y ago
I don't know if anyone cares, but Wikipedians have been discussing a SOPA action for some months now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative
The Wikimedia Foundation will support whatever the community decides. And the community is not waiting for a "money bomb" or whatever. So I don't think donations are going to matter in the slightest.
Activists' support for a boycott may influence it a little bit, but it's really going to be a matter of consensus, and then someone in the community stepping up to the plate to implement something.
The proposals have "triggers" attached, like, "if SOPA is going to a floor vote, trigger blackout 48 hours beforehand" (that's just an example). Nobody has yet talked about a trigger in sympathy with a site like Reddit.
In my opinion, while it might make sense for Reddit to go dark when kn0thing is testifying before a committee, I think there is some risk of weighing in too early. You can't do this sort of thing twice.