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   Wikimedia Foundation on the #SOPA legislation and how it will hurt the free and open web, and #Wikipedia: http://ur1.ca/6oi0y

   about 6 months ago from web
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   • Evan Prodromou

     It would not be a "tremendous task" to do domain blacklisting. Wikipedia does it already. See http://identi.ca/url/37706010

     about 6 months ago
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   • Evan Prodromou Evan Prodromou , Brion Vibber

     I disagree with #SOPA but there's a specious argument here. /cc @brionv

     about 6 months ago
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     x1101 Evan Prodromou

     @evan but thats on a service level, not on a DNS request level. wholly different infrastructure. (Unless you weren’t talking about #SOPA)

     about 6 months ago
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   • Evan Prodromou x1101

     I'm talking about #SOPA. See http://ur1.ca/6oi0y . Argument is that WMF would manually scan millions of links to comply; technically untrue.

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     x1101 Evan Prodromou

     @evan weather their arguments are techincally true or not, #SOPA is the wrong solution to the supposed problem

     about 6 months ago
   • Evan Prodromou x1101

     Totally agree. Always better to have friendlies poke holes in your arguments before hostiles get to it, though.

     about 6 months ago
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     x1101 Evan Prodromou

     @evan ack on that one.

     about 6 months ago
   • Mike Linksvayer Evan Prodromou

     @evan yr right now, but imagine steps ppl will take to circumvent blacklist. It'll only get harder to comply. But I'm just handwaving.

     about 6 months ago
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   • Evan Prodromou Mike Linksvayer

     I am sure there's an argument to be made, but it's currently factually inaccurate and -probably- shouldn't be in the official opinion.

     about 6 months ago
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   • Evan Prodromou Evan Prodromou

     Dang. I wish someone else who has actually worked on the #MediaWiki codebase, besides me, could comment.

     about 6 months ago