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Oppose the Web Censorship Bill

What we have done in Taiwan as a local Mozilla Community

mozillaMozTW, Mozilla Taiwan Community

WHAT HAD WE DONE BEFORE?

• Jan 2012, MozTW had supported Mozilla’s blackout at our front page to anti SOPA.http://moztw.org/events/sopa/

• Discussion of campaign: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/moztw-general/BI1lIpFKoy4/Uskrj15B8QQJ

• Preference: In 24hrs, 9k people saw our announcement.

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MAY 2013, SOPA+ BILL BEEN PROPOSED

• “The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (IPO) recently proposed to

amend the Copyright Act and provide legal justification of IP and DNS

blocking at the Internet Service Provider (ISP) level through a black list

system.” — http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/05/26/netizens-fear-copyright-

amendment-will-bring-web-filter-system-to-taiwan/

• Most of the people think it’s just l10n version of SOPA and even

more serious. (Block sites on ISP without court order, only judged

by governance authority)

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SOME NEWS COVERAGE OF THE BILL

• http://www.techinasia.com/taiwan-protests-copyright-blacklist-

facebook-rally/

• http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/05/28/taiwan-proposes-china-style-

block-on-overseas-internet-services-that-infringe-copyright/

• http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/06/19/taiwans-sopa-is-slapped-

down-following-planned-public-digital-outcry/

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COMMUNITIES OPPOSITION

• Wikimedia Taiwan published a blog to against the billhttp://taipei-wikipedian.blogspot.tw/2013/05/sopa.htmlWe (MozTW) repost it on our bloghttp://mozlinks-zh.blogspot.com/2013/05/sopa.html

• Some users proposed a “Internet blackout day” on June 4 on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/taiwanfreeandopen

• Suggest people replace their avatar and FB header to black image, and leaving message on president’s Facebook page

• Many communities, websites joined together to prepare a blackout campaign

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JUNE 4 2013, WE ACT

• As we know, MoCo-TW had internally discussed and decided not to stand out

• Our friends in Wikimedia-TW published a webpage state out a possibility for them to doing a blackout campaign http://bit.ly/wikipedia-tw-blackout

• We (MozTW community) decided to providing scripts for users to applied on their sites to doing a “Blackout” campaign

• https://github.com/moztw/TW-Error451-Blackout

• We also go blackout on our front-page from 6/4 to 6/7http://moztw.org/events/blackout/

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EXPLANATIONThis website is locked out based on country’s law

Announcement: Taiwan Intellectual Property Office recently proposed SOPA act, to order ISPs block foreign IP infringement websites. This Site strongly against it. we suggest governance to stop research and propose any similar bills, to protect security communication and free to speak.

Do you know the governance is going to introduce a law to get the right to block foreign IP infringement websites. In future, if any content that profit group think it’s infringement on this site, they can block here and then you won’t connect anymore.

If we agree to provide such right to government, they will able to use any of the cause to block any “inappropriate site” they think. Many of the website may forced to self-censorship while you post, checking for any “sensitive words.”

We don’t want this happen in Taiwna, please join with us to against goverment put their hand on internet! If you don’t active fight for it, some day you’ll see this “Error 451” page black your navigation.

Please join: #freeandopen Against Lockout the country, insist 100% free of internet!

continue browsing

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AFTER CLICK “CONTINUE BROWSING”

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EXPLANATION

script provided

license

Mozilla believe in:Internet is public resource… should keep open…

users should be able to decide the way to use…

Internet as a public resource depends interoperability,, innovation…

Magnifying the public benefit of the Internet is an important goal…

Welcome join Mozilla (link to /contribute)

link to the communities-wide campaign site

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PERFORMANCE

• We start the blackout from 6/4 evening to 6/7 evening

• Total unique visitors to moztw.org front page is about 12,000 visits

• About 1,600 visit of the campaign page so far http://moztw.org/events/blackout

• EFF had published an article which mentioned us,“Taiwanese users were going to stage an Internet black out on Tuesday June 4th. Several websites, including Wikipedia Taiwan and Mozilla Taiwan pledged to go dark in order to raise awareness.”https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/taiwanese-users-thwart-government-plans-introduce-internet-blacklist-law

• Irvin and Reke (from Wikimedia-TW) had been invited to a local independent news show, to discuss the issue. http://www.justin.tv/amsmis/c/2385168

• Which we have some media coverage after the interview, ex., http://technews.tw/2013/06/07/technews-support-site-blackout-for-internet-free-speec/ , http://netivism.com.tw/article/215

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ONE MOZILLA

• People won’t distinguish Mozilla community and Mozilla Corporation.

• Although MoCo resist to stand out in this case, we local community

can still fighting independently under Mozilla’s flag.

• People acknowledged that “Mozilla is fighting for internet”.

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