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<h2 class="date">2012-01-05 Thu 16:02:44</h2>
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<h3 class="title"><a class="title" href=
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<p><em>This posting is an updated version of my <a href=
"http://wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a> <a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Neil_Smithline">user page</a>
originally posted on 6 Dec 2011.</em></p>
A few months ago I experienced what is known as a <a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_event_(psychological)">traumatic
event</a>.
<p>It was a day like many other days. I was talking to my two sons
and we had a disagreement about some fact. (I have no recollection
what the fact being discussed was.) So, we did what we always do.
We each reached for one of the nearby smartphones, tablets,
netbooks, and laptops that populate our lives and went right to the
<a href="http://wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a> to resolve the
argument.</p>
<p>Then it happened. The Wikipedia was down. For a second or two,
none of us knew what to do. Then we <a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googled">Googled</a> to find the
answer to our question (I still can't remember the subject but I'm
sure I was right :-).</p>
<p>But I started thinking, what would happen if the Wikipedia were
to go away? It is not that I think the Wikipedia is perfect. In
fact, I think it is chock full of problems. But, what makes the
Wikipedia special is that the Wikipedia's problems are ours, the
users', problems. They aren't owned by <a href=
"http://www.antipixel.com/blog/archives/2002/10/22/steal_these_buttons.html#000526">
big government</a>, <a href=
"http://www.antipixel.com/blog/archives/2002/10/22/steal_these_buttons.html#000526">
big business</a>, <a href=
"http://www.antipixel.com/blog/archives/2002/10/22/steal_these_buttons.html#000526">
lobbyists</a>, the <a href=
"http://www.antipixel.com/blog/archives/2002/10/22/steal_these_buttons.html#000526">
PRC</a>, or anyone else.</p>
<p>If there's a problem, you can edit the page and fix it. If
you're uncertain what to do, you can add a comment about the
problem on the discussion page with the hope that someone else will
fix it or help you out. Or you can simply ignore it. But, in all
cases, <b>you</b> are making the decision.</p>
<p>So I donated $5 to the Wikipedia. That's about the same amount I
tip the driver who delivers my groceries.</p>
<p>Shortly after this traumatic event, the Wikipedia started
posting these banner requests for donations. Personally, I find
them increasingly annoying with every visit. But they are not
nearly as annoying as the 10 minutes or so the Wikipedia was down.
That downright spooked me.</p>
<p>Being they've continued to post the banner requests, I'm
assuming they continue to need more money. So I decided to start
what I'm calling The Wikipedia: Just Give campaign.</p>
<p>I'm not sure what the campaign will consist of, but I want to
encourage everyone to give to the Wikipedia. I, who am totally
untalented in the graphic arts, even made a few icons to help
people join my campaign.</p>
<p>So I ask each of you to just give. If you don't have a lot,
don't give a lot. But more importantly, encourage everyone you know
to just give.</p>
<p><b>Update 14 January 2012:</b> Just got this</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Sorry, the servers are overloaded at the moment.</p>
<p>Too many users are trying to view this page. Please wait a while
before you access this page again.</p>
<ul>
<li>Timeout waiting for the lock</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p class="verse">Neil Smithline, 6 December 2011<br />
<i>A proud sponsor of the Wikipedia and its free
information.</i><br /></p>
<div id="outline-container-1" class="outline-3">
<h3 id="sec-1">Resources</h3>
<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-1">
<p><i>Any artistic help on the badges would be deeply
appreciated.</i></p>
</div>
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<h4 id="sec-1-1">HTML Code For Your Website</h4>
<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-1-1">
<p>Assuming I've gotten all my angle brackets matched and tags
closed, depending on the system you use, you can add a graphic to
your website or email signature by copy-and-pasting this:</p>
<center><a href=
"http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA085/en/US"
target="_blank" title="Wikimedia donation page"><img src=
"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Wikipedia_Just_Give-_Blue_Gray_Antipixel.png"
alt="Blue and gray 'Just Give' icon" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 75%;">(<a href="http://bit.ly/just-give"
target="_blank" title="'Just Give' Campaign">what's
this?</a>)</span></center>
<p>or this HTML:</p>
<pre class="example">
<a
href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=WMFJA085/en/US"
target="_blank" title="Wikimedia donation page">
<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Wikipedia_Just_Give-_Blue_Gray_Antipixel.png"
alt="Blue and gray 'Just Give' icon"/>
</a>
<br/>
<span style="font-size: 75%;">
(<a href="http://bit.ly/just-give"
target="_blank"
title="'Just Give' Campaign">what's this?</a>)
</span>
</pre></div>
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<h4 id="sec-1-2">Standard Badges (<a href=
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style, 80x15px)</h4>
<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-1-2"><br />
<br />
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cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" frame="2">
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<h2 class="date">2011-12-30 Fri 12:26:33</h2>
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<h3 class="title"><a class="title" href=
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Florida Appeals Court More Liberal Than SOPA!</a></h3>
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<p>Earlier this week, the Florida appeals court made a ruling that
even the poster of a defamatory posting on a public website could
not force a website to remove the posting. While most sites allow
you to remove your own postings, <a href=
"http://www.ripoffreport.com/">RipoffReport.com</a>, the site
involved in this ruling, states that as an advocate of free speech,
it never removes reports. This is clearly stated at the top of
their home page and documented extensively on their <a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripoff_Report#Non-removal_Policy">Wikipedia
page</a>.</p>
<p>While not allowing the poster to remove or have removed a
posting seems extreme, the site claims that it wishes to remain
unbiased. As such, it makes no judgment calls about its content.
Everything that is appropriate for the site will stay on the site,
forever. RipoffReport.com is afraid that posters may be pressured
by 3<sup>rd</sup>-parties to remove articles. As such, They are
simply not allowed to.</p>
<p>While postings are never removed, the site allows anyone to post
a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebuttal">rebuttal</a> to
any posting. A poster can use this mechanism to retract their
initial statement.</p>
<p>The court ruled that RipoffReport.com could neither be held
liable for the defamatory posting nor be forced to remove it. The
bottom line of all of this is that</p>
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<p>The supreme court of Florida, a <a href=
"http://www.gallup.com/poll/125066/State-States.aspx">middle-of-the-road
state</a>, was willing to make a controversial ruling favored many
aspects of freedom of speech. If SOPA is passed, cases like this
won't even make it to courts as SOPA make it clear that if a ruling
is defamatory, it is illegal.</p>
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<p>While Congress has delayed voting on SOPA for another month, it
is still on the docket. It is unclear what the fate of SOPA will
be.</p>
<p>One can hope that Congress pays attention to protests such as
the statement]] consumers sent to <a href=
"http://www.godaddy.com">GoDaddy</a> after it announced its support
of SOPA. GoDaddy announced that on a Saturday (see <a href=
"http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/29/2053252/wikipedia-to-dump-godaddy-over-sopa">
more complete chronology</a>) and then lost <a href=
"http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/25/1452251/go-daddy-loses-over-21000-domains-in-one-daylosing">
21K domains</a> on the next day. More recently, the <a href=
"http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/29/2053252/wikipedia-to-dump-godaddy-over-sopa">
Wikipedia announced it would discontinue all use of
GoDaddy</a>.</p>
<p>Let's continue to hope that advocates of free speech, including
you (see <a href=
"SOPA-the-end-of-free-speech.html#ID-06BB29E4-D6B3-430E-B5A3-FDC6716A0ED3">
SOPA: The End Of Free Speech</a> for instructions as to how to
help), continue to pressure our government into sane activit</p>
<p>Copied directly from the <a href=
"http://www.slashdot.org">Slashdot</a> <a href=
"http://bit.ly/vVVDLC">article</a>:</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.ripoffreport.com/">RipoffReport.com</a>
contained an admittedly defamatory posting, by one of its users,
about a person who operated a Florida corporation providing
addiction treatment services. Although the site was asked by the
poster herself to remove the post, it refused. A Florida appeals
court has ruled that the site is absolutely immune from suit
(<a href=
"http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2011/12/florida-appeals-court-rules.html">pdf</a>),
and cannot even be directed to remove the offending post, since
under the
[[http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode47/usc<sub>sec</sub><sub>47</sub><sub>00000230</sub>-—000-.html][Communications
Decency Act (47 USC 230)] 'no cause of action may be brought'
against a provider of an "interactive computer service" based upon
information provided by a 3rd party.</p>
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<p>This posting is best viewed as part of the series of postings
about <a href=
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Litigious Trio</a> and, in a larger context, <a href=
"http://neilsmithline.com/archives/online-freedom/index.html">Online
Freedom</a>.</p>
<p>To be clear, <i>The Litigious Trio</i> are, in alphabetical
order, <a href="http://apple.com">Apple</a>, <a href=
"http://google.com">Google</a> and <a href=
"http://microsoft.com">Microsoft</a>. While they are three
wonderful technology companies, over time, each has turned to an
increasingly large amount of litigation to enforce their current
market status.</p>
<p>While I do not believe that the three companies actively
collaborate with each other to hinder the success of smaller
companies, I believe that selfish<sup><a class="footref" name=
"fnr.1" href="#fn.1" id="fnr.1">1</a></sup> business practices by
the trio have had the affect of having created a three company
monopoly<sup><a class="footref" name="fnr.2" href="#fn.2" id=
"fnr.2">2</a></sup>. While the three companies are locked in a
near-endless stream of litigation against each other, this is
rather typical amongst large corporate competitors. I can't say
that I'm in favor of such litigation but I the three companies can
spend their money that way if they want to. They have more than
enough of it.</p>
<p>But when <i>The Litigious Trio</i>, behaving in a
pseudo-monopolistic manner, use litigation to block competition
from smaller companies, they end up stifling innovation.</p>
<p>Furthermore, <i>The Litigious Trio</i> are not necessarily the
most user-friendly companies. They, along with <a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook">Facebook</a>, are some of
the leaders in gathering information about its users. Consider the
following:</p>
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<li>Nearly all of Google's revenue comes from advertising. Their
advertising is so valuable, and profitable, because they are able
to sell well targeted ads. That is, they know so much about each
user that they can sell ad space for that specific user for more
than other advertising vendors. The article, <a href=
"http://www.globalreports.com/?article=12">We Are Google's
Products</a>, provides a good summary of this concept.</li>
<li>Google has a near-monopoly on internet advertising. The US
Senate <a href=
"http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/21/1356246/senators-recommend-ftc-perform-antitrust-investigation-of-google">
has recently requested</a> the <a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Trade_Commission">FTC</a> to
investigate this.</li>
<li>Microsoft's <a href=
"https://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+antitrust&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a">
monopolistic practices</a> have been discussed and challenged by
courts around the world for years.</li>
<li>Apple is currently under investigation for <a href=
"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/07/us-justice-department-apple-ebooks_n_1134983.html">
price fixing on its eBooks</a>, has just been fined for <a href=
"http://www.pluggedin.co.uk/article/apple-fined-over-misleading-customers-italy">
charging customers in Italy</a> for providing federally mandated,
free support, and has tried to <a href=
"http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/08/09/1832254/sale-of-samsung-galaxy-tab-blocked-in-the-eu">
destroy Samsung's mobile market</a> by presenting <a href=
"http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/15/1758224/flawed-evidence-in-eu-apple-vs-samsung-case">
falsified evidence</a> to courts around the world. While this last
claim seems hard to believe, an <a href=
"http://www.pcworld.com/article/238047/apple_offers_flawed_evidence_in_lawsuit_against_samsung.html">
easily accessible description and images</a> demonstrate that Apple
is either incompetent or dishonest.</li>
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<p>The only question seems to be whether the public is motivated to
address this problem and what the public can do to address it. The
reason monopolies are illegal is because fighting them is
difficult.</p>
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