Suggestion: Black out fedoraproject.org on the 18th to protest against SOPA and PROTECT-IP

[Elad]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Kévin Raymond
<shaiton at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro>
> wrote:
> > On 01/13/2012 10:33 AM, Elad wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> SOPA and PROTECT-IP endanger the open web, which is something I'm sure
> >> we don't want to happen.
> >> Many websites will be blacked-out, presenting information on SOPA and
> >> why it's wrong on January 18th, I suggest we join them.
> >> Who's with me?
> >
> >
> > This is a politic engagement of the project and is above the competency
> of
> > the websites team. This is what I raised the question earlier with the
> > Board:
> >
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2012-January/011116.html
>
> I was about to answer the same.
> We all feel really concerned about the Open Source, of course, but
> could not interfer with politics.
>
I don't agree, we should put a stop to this, because SOPA can harm Fedora.

> If you have a personnal blog, that's were you should discuss about
> personnal feelings/ideas.
>
I didn't want to discuss this idea, I wanted to get something done. Nicu is
right, the board should decide on this, and I hope they'll decide to black
out fedoraproject.org


> In France we have something called HADOPI, a new an completly wrong
> law that let the governement the possibility to cut your internet
> connexion: they want to blacklist people… They only have the ipv4
> adress to match your internet traffic with your real name, which is
> completly crazy. They even want to do more: add a mandatory
> governement spy in your Operating System (of course guys up there
> don't undersand Linux things).
>
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> Kévin Raymond
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-Elad Alfassa.
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