This is the first installment in our three-part series about Section 230. (Read the second blog post) Written by the Wikimedia Foundation’s: Stan Adams, Lead Public Policy Specialist for North America “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any…

Written by Jan Gerlach, Director of Public Policy at the Wikimedia Foundation; Phil Bradley-Schmieg, Lead Counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation; and, Michele Failla, Senior EU Policy Specialist at Wikimedia Europe (Wikimédia France, the French national Wikimedia chapter, has also published a blog post on the SREN bill) The French legislature…

Written by the Wikimedia Foundation’s: Franziska Putz, Senior Movement Advocacy Manager. Members from the Wikimedia Foundation’s (WMF) Global Advocacy team and Human Rights team will be joining the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) that is taking place in Kyoto, Japan, from 8–12 October, 2023. IGF is an important annual gathering of…

Update (8 November 2023) from Stan Adams, Lead Public Policy Specialist for North America at the Wikimedia Foundation: In light of the history of unconstitutional spying by unaccountable US government agencies under FISA Section 702, the Wikimedia Foundation welcomes the strong legislative reform proposals included in the Government Surveillance Reform…

Three takeaways for Wikipedia and free knowledge advocates from the Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter, Inc v. Taamneh et al. rulings. Written by the Wikimedia Foundation’s: Stan Adams, Lead Public Policy Specialist for North America; Allison Davenport, Public Policy Research and Analysis Manager; and, Jacob Rogers, Associate General Counsel. …

Written by the Wikimedia Foundation’s: Valentina Vera-Quiroz, Human Rights, Policy, and Tech Fellow. In the early 2000s, the Colombian army lured young men to rural areas with offers of work, assassinated them, and passed them off to authorities as guerrillas killed on the battlefield in order to increase the “body…

Written by Dimitar Dimitrov, Policy Director at Wikimedia Europe Since the advent of online platforms, which allow users to openly share content, the structure of the public sphere has been transformed. Until just a few decades ago, we were used to the fact that a significant part of public discourse…

Update from Rebecca MacKinnon, Vice President of Global Advocacy at the Wikimedia Foundation: On 18 May 2023, the US Supreme Court issued its ruling on Gonzalez v. Google LLC. The case marked the first time that the Court considered Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects website hosts…

Written by the Wikimedia Foundation’s: Kate Ruane, Lead Public Policy Specialist for the United States; Ellen Magallanes, Senior Counsel; and, Clarissa Choy, Senior Counsel. Protecting privacy is in Wikimedians’ DNA. Both the Foundation and the Wikimedia community know better than most that privacy is an essential element of free knowledge…