Jimmy Wales is founder of Wikimedia project according to the organization's tax returns. Wikimedia has received millions of dollars from Silicon Valley. I appreciate Jimmy Wales' work on the SOPA/PIPA fight, which also happened to coincide with the interests of his donors. Where was the support to take down CISPA (a US internet spying bill)? Much of the fight against CISPA was real grass roots democracy taking place without corporate sponsorship. We did not have millions of dollars from Silicon Valley; we only had ourselves.
The Silicon Valley clique will never save us from the most agregious and illegal practices of the US government. We need real grassroots democracy, not another multi-million dollar Silicon Valley sponsored nonprofit.
"My point is not that we shouldn't offend the MPAA or Disney." And that says it all my friends....
Jimmy Wales is founder of Wikimedia project according to the organization's tax returns. Wikimedia has received millions of dollars from Silicon Valley. I appreciate Jimmy Wales' work on the SOPA/PIPA fight, which also happened to coincide with the interests of his donors. Where was the support to take down CISPA (a US internet spying bill)? Much of the fight against CISPA was real grass roots democracy taking place without corporate sponsorship. We did not have millions of dollars from Silicon Valley; we only had ourselves.
The Silicon Valley clique will never save us from the most agregious and illegal practices of the US government. We need real grassroots democracy, not another multi-million dollar Silicon Valley sponsored nonprofit.
"My point is not that we shouldn't offend the MPAA or Disney." And that says it all my friends....