Board Thread:Wiki News/@comment-4811793-20130620231943/@comment-9946604-20130620235849

90% of our forum posts come from unregistered users. Then again, so do 90% of our headaches... While it would make my work here easier, it would also violate the spirit of wikimedia's mission.

I'd like to be the first (and probably only) admin here to go on record as saying this is garbage and I'm against it. We take great strides to protect the children here. I monitor the forum very closely for anything that could result in a child giving out personal information or being subjected to obscene content and I squish it out.

I strongly disagree with the American government trying to police the internet. It is not part of any nation. This colonialist attitude is downright old-fashioned. Shame on you for bending your knee. Shame on you. You have let us all down. I will never forget wikipedia's blackout against SOPA, and I hope to see similar initatives for this. I will fight against any nation that tries to police the internet. The internet should police itself.

In the true spirit of wikimedia, we will police ourselves. Go back to your masters and tell them we (or me, atleast) are not interested in their silly law. COPPA, SOPA, PIPA, I don't care. As a True Blue American, I reject them all. Our policy prevents me from telling you what they can do with this law and your new policy, but I'm sure you can use your imagination.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have a local congressman to go annoy yet again with my old fashioned ideas about freedom. I leave you with a quote from a mediocre movie with a very valid message:

"Beneath this mask, there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask, there is an idea, Mr Creedy. And ideas are bulletproof."