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:Extradition? WTF?

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due to the borderless nature of the internet, what this guy does in the UK most certainly has an impact on the media business in the USA

this is not a statement in support of this bullshit extradition, this is to point out how utterly fucked american IP law is in the modern world, eventually

because you would have to constantly extradite citizens of other countries to the USA to continue the existence of this rent seeking parasitical media business

obviously, the idea that you are extraditing people from other countries for this "horrible crime" should rise to the level of such moral stink that there is no way this can continue... were it not for the media corporations greasing the palms of enough legislative whores and executive enforcement goons

i'm not one to give up the game so easily, as some cynical cowards are when it comes to the wholesale purchase of our government by corporations. no, the game is not over. yes, you can defeat the corruption of our government: with enough people caring and not just throwing up their hands at news like this

we the people still matter, so let us fight the good fight and raise the proper moral stink our corrupt, compromised conflicted government cannot