Re: [SMW-devel] [Semediawiki-user] [NEWS] SMW to black out against SOPA and PIPA

[James H. K. <jam...@gm...>]

Dear all,

Thanks for the action taken.

For all those participants who need an academic analysis on ‘How SOPA
violates the First Amendment’, please see comments[1] from Laurence
Tribe (a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School).

[1] http://www.scribd.com/doc/75153093/Tribe-Legis-Memo-on-SOPA-12-6-11-1

Cheers,

mwjames

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Markus Krötzsch
<ma...@se...> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> many of you will already be aware of the upcoming global protest against
> two proposed United States laws, called SOPA and PIPA. As Wikimedia put
> it: "These bills endanger free speech both in the United States and
> abroad, setting a frightening precedent of Internet censorship for the
> world." More background information on why this is a threat to free and
> open wiki sites is provided by Wikipedia [1].
>
> Semantic MediaWiki is taking these matters most seriously, and will join
> Wikipedia and many other sites [2] in a global strike against these
> proposals. This means that content of semantic-mediawiki.org will not be
> available from tomorrow (Wed, Jan 18) morning to Thursday morning.
>
> If you are a US citizen, you may want to take direct action, e.g., using
> the Web forms that will be provided on striking sites.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Markus
>
> [1]
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
> [2] http://sopastrike.com/
>
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