Geoff says:
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The result is that, under court order, Wikimedia would be tasked to review millions upon millions of sourced links, locate the links of the so-called “foreign infringing sites,†and block them from our articles or other projects. It costs donors’ money and staff resources to undertake such a tremendous task, and it must be repeated every time a prosecutor delivers a court order from any federal judge in the United States on any new “foreign infringing site.†Blocking links runs against our culture of open knowledge, especially when surgical solutions to fighting infringing material are available.
Hey, dipwad... what do you think the WikiNazis are doing on a daily basis with the "Spam Blacklist", where they censor sites that aren't even spamming?
Oh, I see someone already made that point in the blog comments:
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Evan Prodromou Says:
December 14th, 2011 at 07:45
I oppose SOPA and support Wikimedia and Wikipedia. But I think your argument is dangerously weak.
MediaWiki already has a domain-blacklisting extension,
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist . URLs with domains in the blacklist can not be added to an article. It’s in use on English Wikipedia; it might be in use on more sites. It would not require an undue amount of work to add new domains to the blacklist. The extension includes scripts to scan for URLs in existing articles when you add new ones to the blacklist.
SOPA may be bad, but I’m not sure the argument that it would be hard to comply is coherent.