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Protect IP Act / Stop Online Piracy Act (PIPA / SOPA)
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Protect IP Act / Stop Online Piracy Act (PIPA / SOPA)
![Mail File Edit View Mailbox Message Format Window Help (Charged)Fri Dec 16 9 32 48 PM Q Inbox (2θ。θ Re: Correspondence from Senator Orrin Hatch Delete Junk Sent▼ Notes▼ Sort by Date ▼ Get Mail Reply Reply All Forward New Message Note Show R Helvetica Hide Inbox ▼ Flagged Junk▼ Drafts (1)▼ MAILBOXES To: SenatorOrrinHatch@hatch.senate.gov From: Senat Inbox Subject: C ▼ Subject: Re: Correspondence from Senator Orrin Hatch Date: De To: C Reply-To: Senat Senator Hatch I got your email, but it contained no text. <SenatorOrrinHatch@hatch.senate.gov12/14/11 Correspondence from Senator Orrin Hatch Inbox Gmail This message has no content. I wrote to you concerning the PROTECT IP Act (United States Senate Bill S.968) and how it will destroy The Internet as we know it, killing American jobs in the process. Judging by your correspondence, I really don't think you are qualified to tinker with The Internet's workings. I mean, you just sent me a blank email. nk REMINDERS Flagged 2 | Notes l sincerely hope you don't mind me sharing your "reply" with my friends, family, and coworkers, most of whom are your constituents Thanks, Cameron Porcaro "drivec" MAIL ACTIVITY On Dec 14, 2011, at 2:29 PM, <SenatorOrrinHatch@hatch.senate.gov> <SenatorOrrinHatch@hatch.senate.gov> wrote: Aa 13](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/218/365/LargerFontJPEG.jpg)
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Protect IP Act / Stop Online Piracy Act (PIPA / SOPA)
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Protect IP Act / Stop Online Piracy Act (PIPA / SOPA)
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Protect IP Act / Stop Online Piracy Act (PIPA / SOPA)
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Protect IP Act / Stop Online Piracy Act (PIPA / SOPA)
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Protect IP Act / Stop Online Piracy Act (PIPA / SOPA)
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Protect IP Act / Stop Online Piracy Act (PIPA / SOPA)
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Protect IP Act / Stop Online Piracy Act (PIPA / SOPA)
![Request for Comment: SOPA and a strike [edit] An editor has requested comment from other editors for this discussion. This page has been added to the Unsorted list. When discussion has ended, remove this tag and it will be removed from the list. If this page is on additional lists, they will be noted below Please consider joining the Feedback Request Service. (Please help me publicize this widely.) A few months ago, the Italian Wikipedia community made a decision to blank all of Italian Wikipedia for a short period in order to protest a law which would infringe on their editorial independence. The Italian Parliament backed down immediately. As Wikipedians may or may not be aware, a much worse law going under the misleading title of "Stop Online Piracy Act' is working its way through Congress on a bit of a fast track. I may be attending a meeting at the White House on Monday (pending confirmation on a couple of fronts) along with executives from many other top Internet firms, and I thought this would be a good time to take a quick reading of the community feeling on this issue. My own view is that a community strike was very powerful and successful in Italy and could be even more powerful in this case. There are obviously many questions about whether the strike should be geotargetted (US-only), etc. (One possible view is that because the law would seriously impact the functioning of Wikipedia for everyone, a global strike of at least the English Wikipedia would put the maximum pressure on the US government.) At the same time, it's of course a very very big deal to do something like this, it is unprecedented for English Wikipedia. - Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimbo Wales (talk contribs) 07:42, 10 December 2011 (note: I added the request for comment tag and signature for the bot Crazynas 09:22, 10 December 2011 (UTC)) So, this is a straw poll. Please lvote either support' or 'oppose' with a reason, and try to keep wide-ranging discussion to the section below the poll To be clear, this is NOT a vote on whether or not to have a strike. This is merely a straw poll to indicate overall interest. If this poll is firmly opposed' then I'll know that now. But even if this poll is firmly in 'support' we'd obviously go through a much longer process to get some kind of consensus around parameters, triggers, and timing Before answering at Poll, perhaps read below, #Discussion.-Wikid77 05:39, 12 December 2011 (UTC)](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/216/567/c15.png)
![Request for Comment: SOPA and a strike [edit] An editor has requested comment from other editors for this discussion. This page has been added to the Unsorted list. When discussion has ended, remove this tag and it will be removed from the list. If this page is on additional lists, they will be noted below Please consider joining the Feedback Request Service. (Please help me publicize this widely.) A few months ago, the Italian Wikipedia community made a decision to blank all of Italian Wikipedia for a short period in order to protest a law which would infringe on their editorial independence. The Italian Parliament backed down immediately. As Wikipedians may or may not be aware, a much worse law going under the misleading title of "Stop Online Piracy Act' is working its way through Congress on a bit of a fast track. I may be attending a meeting at the White House on Monday (pending confirmation on a couple of fronts) along with executives from many other top Internet firms, and I thought this would be a good time to take a quick reading of the community feeling on this issue. My own view is that a community strike was very powerful and successful in Italy and could be even more powerful in this case. There are obviously many questions about whether the strike should be geotargetted (US-only), etc. (One possible view is that because the law would seriously impact the functioning of Wikipedia for everyone, a global strike of at least the English Wikipedia would put the maximum pressure on the US government.) At the same time, it's of course a very very big deal to do something like this, it is unprecedented for English Wikipedia. - Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimbo Wales (talk contribs) 07:42, 10 December 2011 (note: I added the request for comment tag and signature for the bot Crazynas 09:22, 10 December 2011 (UTC)) So, this is a straw poll. Please lvote either support' or 'oppose' with a reason, and try to keep wide-ranging discussion to the section below the poll To be clear, this is NOT a vote on whether or not to have a strike. This is merely a straw poll to indicate overall interest. If this poll is firmly opposed' then I'll know that now. But even if this poll is firmly in 'support' we'd obviously go through a much longer process to get some kind of consensus around parameters, triggers, and timing Before answering at Poll, perhaps read below, #Discussion.-Wikid77 05:39, 12 December 2011 (UTC)](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/216/567/c15.png)
Protect IP Act / Stop Online Piracy Act (PIPA / SOPA)
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![Entra /Registrati Pagina di servizio Discussione Leggi Visualizza sorgente Visualizza cronologia Ricerca Dear reader, WIKIPEDIA at this time, the Italian language Wikipedia may be no longer able to continue providing the service that over the years was useful to you, and that you expected to have right now. As things stand, the page you want still exists and is only hidden, but the risk is that soon we will be forced to actually delete it enciclopedia libera Pagina principale Ultime modifiche Una voce a caso Vetrina Over the past ten years, Wikipedia has become part of the daily habits of millions of web users looking for a neutral free-content, and - above all - independent source of Knowledge. A new, huge multi-lingual encyclopedia, freely available to all, at any time, and free of charge Today, unfortunately, the very pillars on which Wikipedia has been built neutrality, freedom, and verifiability of its contents - are likely to be heavily compromised by paragraph 29 of a law proposal, also known as "DDL intercettazioni" (Wiretapping Act) This proposal, which the Italian Parliament is currently debating, provides, among other things, a requirement to all websites to publish, within 48 hours of the request and without any comment, a correction of any content that the applicant deems detrimental to his/her image Unfortunately, the law does not require an evaluation of the claim by an impartial third judge - the opinion of the person allegedly injured is all that is required, in order to impose such correction to any website Hence, anyone who feels offended by any content published on a blog, an online newspaper and, most likely even on Wikipedia can directly request the removal of such contents and its permanent replacement with a "corrected" version, aimed to contr The Bill -Rules on Wiretapping etc. 9, p.24 letter a) states that: «For the Internet sites, including newspapers and periodicals delivered by telematic way the statements or corrections are published with the same graphic characteristics, the same access methodology to the site and the same visibility of the news which they refer.» ▼ Comunità Portale Comunità Il Wikipediano Fai una donazione Contatti Stampa/espor Strumenti ess of the information deemed as offensive, and its sources During all these years, the users of Wikipedia (and we want once more, to point out that Wikipedia does not have an editorial staff) have always been available to review - and modify, if needed - any content deemed to be detrimental to anyone, without harm to the Project's neutrality and independence. In the very rare instances it was not possible to reach a mutually satisfactory solution, the entire page has been removed Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 27 (1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits (2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting rom production of which he is the author. The obligation to publish on our site the correction as is provided by th amed paragraph 29, without SCI erary or artistic the freedom and independence of Wikipedia, to the point of distorting the principles on which the Free Encyclopedia is based and this would bring to a paralysis of the "horizontal" method of access and editing, putting - in fact - an end to its existence as we have known until today we w rs tion. Under such provisions, web users bably led to cease dealing with certain topics or people, just to "avoid troubles" We want to be able to keep a free and open-to-all encyclopa edia, because our articles are als rs](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/216/565/Wikipedia_Comunicato_4_ottobre_2011-en_-_Wikipedia_1317753339711.png)
Protect IP Act / Stop Online Piracy Act (PIPA / SOPA)
![F--- YOUR CENSORSHIP BILL!! WE WIL NOT PUT IP WITH THIS ULLSHIT!!](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/214/746/200.jpg)
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Protect IP Act / Stop Online Piracy Act (PIPA / SOPA)
![SOPA SHALL NOT PASS](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/209/443/505.jpg)
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Protect IP Act / Stop Online Piracy Act (PIPA / SOPA)
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Protect IP Act / Stop Online Piracy Act (PIPA / SOPA)
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Protect IP Act / Stop Online Piracy Act (PIPA / SOPA)
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Protect IP Act / Stop Online Piracy Act (PIPA / SOPA)