Jimmy Wales Calls UK Government To Halt O'Dwyer Extradition

judgecorp writes "Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has called on the UK government to stop the extradition of Richard O'Dwyer. O'Dwyer was accused of infringing copyright with his site TVShack, but charges were dismissed in the UK. Wales has set up a petition and calls this the start of a new 'Internet war' following the successful opposition to SOPA earlier this year."

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Re:All your legal system are belong to U.S.

[Trepidity]

Fwiw, Wales isn't "the head of Wikipedia" anymore either. He remains one of the 10 members of the Board of Trustees in a special member-for-life seat, but he no longer runs the organization day-to-day (the staff do that), and has no specific authority to make decisions, except via his vote on the Board.

Re:Extradition? WTF?

[JosKarith]

Blame Tony B.Liar. He had his tongue so far up Dubya's ass that he willingly signed one of the most lopsided extradition treaties not backed up by the threat of millitary force ever.

Re:All your legal system are belong to U.S.

[Anonymous Coward]

The Sopa protest made sense as it effected Wikipedia directly.

AFFECTED.

Re:Extradition? WTF?

[Anonymous Brave Guy]

Blair, despite pushing this odious treaty, was re-elected in 2005.

By 22% of the population, and without even winning the popular vote in England. He was re-elected only because our electoral system is about as democratic as the military leadership in Egypt right now.

Short of violent revolution, it's going to take time to fix that, but we're working on it on several fronts already.

People seemed to have few concerns with Blair dragging the UK blindly in to war

Aside from literally millions of people taking to the streets in the biggest protest by the British public in living memory, you mean?

Blair had plenty of faults, but if you're going to have a dig, kindly don't imply that most of the "good people of the UK" supported him. It simply isn't true.