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Jul 25, 2024 · The Wikimedia Foundation’s amicus brief calls upon the Supreme Court to strike down laws passed in 2021 by Texas and Florida state legislatures. Texas House Bill 20 and Florida Senate Bill 7072 prohibit website operators from banning users or removing speech and content based on the viewpoints and opinions of the users in question.
Dec 7, 2023 · The Wikimedia Foundation has filed a “friend-of-the-court” brief with the US Supreme Court supporting challenges to laws in Texas and Florida that threaten the right to freedom of expression as enshrined under the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
Laws like Texas’s House Bill 20 (“H.B. 20”) and Florida’s Senate Bill 7072 (“S.B. 7072”), violate the First Amendment. And though aimed at major social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and X (for-merly known as Twitter), these laws risk sweeping in online projects like those operated by the Foundation.
Dec 11, 2023 · The cases address Texas House Bill 20 and Florida Senate Bill 7072, which prohibit website operators from banning users or removing speech and content based on the viewpoints and opinions of the users in question.
May 22, 2023 · 1. The Court’s ruling means Wikimedia volunteers can continue to share free knowledge globally. The liability protections in Section 230 are what enable the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation to...
Jun 18, 2021 · The Wikimedia Foundation cannot simply ignore corresponding court decisions, as otherwise high fines against the Wikimedia Foundation, prison sentences against employees or authors in the countries concerned could be threatened. Jacob summarized three criteria as decisive for complying:
He was the first staff counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and he created the Internet adage Godwin's law and the notion of an Internet meme. [1] From July 2007 to October 2010, he was general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation. In March 2011, he was elected to the Open Source Initiative board. [2]
