[Noisebridge-discuss] Should NB mirror WikiLeaks?

[Christie Dudley]

There's a symbolic value here, I think, on more than one point.  Does anyone
else see it?

In the end, though, I suppose all words are just symbolic of something.

Christie
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"It is the time you have lost for your rose that makes your rose so
important."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart."
William Butler Yeats



On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Alex Handy <alexhandy at gmail.com> wrote:

> The EFF has also been in front of the Supreme Court before. The IRS might
> not be so afraid of yanking the status of a non-lawyer body.
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> I guess what I am saying is: what is the net win here for Noisebridge? I
> agree, entirely that Wikileaks should be mirrored, but it's already mirrored
> all over. Best case scenario, NB's mirror helps a handfull of people access
> information they were already able to access elsewhere.
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> Worst case scenario, our NP status is yanked and we have to work with the
> EFF for years to reinstate it.
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> On Dec 7, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Christie Dudley wrote:
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> Off course the EFF is shaking in their shoes, afraid of getting their
> status yanked, not wanting to take sides in the issue:
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> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/amazon-and-wikileaks-first-amendment-only-strong
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> <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/amazon-and-wikileaks-first-amendment-only-strong>
> Christie
> _______
> "It is the time you have lost for your rose that makes your rose so
> important."
> Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
>
> "Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart."
> William Butler Yeats
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> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Alex Handy <alexhandy at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Just for the record, as a 501c3, Noisebridge cannot partake in or fund any
>> political activities. Now, I don't think Wikileaks is political; I
>> personally think it is the only real journalistic entity left in the world.
>> But it could be very easily construed by the IRS as supporting political
>> action, if we mirror Wikileaks.
>>
>> Just sayin'. Don't tempt the IRS. They could yank our non-profit status.
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