Comment by perihelions
16 days ago
> "This is a fine sentiment, could you also please provide an alternative approach?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3477966 ("Wikipedia blackout page (wikipedia.org)" (2012))
Wikimedia weren't always a giant ambulating pile of cash; they used to be activists. Long ago.
> Wikimedia weren't always a giant ambulating pile of cash; they used to be activists. Long ago.
Your point is moot because this wasn’t a WMF initiative, it was an enwiki community initiative which WMF agreed to accommodate.
The history is detailed… on Wikipedia… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA...