Wikipedia:SOPA initiative/Post-blackout activities and initiatives

The recent blackout is unlikely to be the end. This page contains links and information to post-blackout activities, proposals, and initiatives by the community.


 * SOPA initiative/Ideas
 * Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 19
 * Proposed statement, directed at media organizations:
 * "Public campaign finance is the only way to get lobbying money out of Congress and restore its integrity. Congresspeople have to spend 85% of their time fundraising, up from 70% before Citizens United v. FEC because the candidate spending the most money wins 94% of the time. So please ask your CEO, [publisher,] and board to support appropriating e.g. $10 million campaign funds to the top two contenders six months before federal elections. The resulting campaign advertisements will directly benefit your company and indirectly benefit everyone."
 * The Rootstrikers organization is active on these issues, with a recently redesigned web site.
 * United4thePeople.org is doing similar work, targeted towards lawmakers.

CISPA
I'd just like to remind all:  if you oppose SOPA, you should oppose CISPA. It's much worse. If wikipedia can stop one law, it can stop another. --HectorMoffet (talk) 13:08, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
 * http://www.privacyisawesome.com/ is on it. 71.212.226.91 (talk) 02:09, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

OpBlackout-USAGOV
OpBlackout requests that you would please not abandon the plan. --ARKBG1 (talk) 23:00, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Internet Defense League

 * http://internetdefenseleague.org is just getting started, and potentially a useful resource if it matures well. 71.212.251.217 (talk) 05:50, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
 * It appears as though they are developing browser plug-ins to automate boycotts. 71.212.226.91 (talk) 02:10, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

I've been watching http://www.reddit.com/r/internetdefense/controversial/ that used to list https://boycottplus.org/ which seems rather drastic (but potentially very powerful and effective) but which is now listing http://stopthetrap.net that does seem like a very important issue which places the continued existence of the Foundation, Wikipedia and wikis in general at considerable risk. Please note Requests for comment/Internet Defense League (and the User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive 109 archive.) 70.91.171.54 (talk) 02:12, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
 * See also http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/blog/2012/july/ustr-introduces-new-copyright-exceptions-limitations-provision 75.166.192.187 (talk) 22:24, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Access to research
Please see Access2Research and follow Access2research.org: Joining the campaign for free and open access to research funded by U.S. taxpayers, the Wikimedia Foundation is supporting the petition which seeks to ensure via a mandate that research produced with United States federal funding can be accessed, free of charge, by anyone.

Russian Wikipedia blackout
The Russian Wikipedia is going dark for a day in solidarity against their version of SOPA/PIPA. 71.212.249.178 (talk) 08:09, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * English language coverage; Jimmy Wales on PBS News Hour. 71.212.249.178 (talk) 17:28, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Foundation lobbying strategy priority suggestions
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wikimania_2012_-_JDF-PB_lobbying_slides_-_final.pdf&page=12 71.212.249.178 (talk) 23:29, 15 July 2012 (UTC)