Board Thread:Wiki News/@comment-4811793-20130620231943/@comment-9946604-20130621011843

Most Americans do not feel this way.

Wikia is an international website. I don't have any numbers to back this up, but I observe that most users of our wiki are not American. Why should we bend for this law?

As I said, this policy change is garbage. We should be free to police ourselves in the spirit of the wikimedia vision. AND I QUOTE:

FREEDOM:'' "An essential part of the Wikimedia Foundation's mission is encouraging the development of free-content educational resources that may be created, used, and reused by the entire human community. We believe that this mission requires thriving open formats and open standards on the web to allow the creation of content not subject to restrictions on creation, use, and reuse. At the creation level, we want to provide the editing community with freely-licensed tools for participation and collaboration. [...] The community will in turn create a body of knowledge which can be distributed freely throughout the world, viewable or playable by free software tools.''"

Taken from the wikimedia values page located at wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Values.

This policy change is in conflict with wikimedia's values and should not be accepted. End of discussion.