The Wikimedia Foundation will support whatever the community decides. And the community is not waiting for a "money bomb" or whatever. So I don't think donations are going to matter in the slightest.
Activists' support for a boycott may influence it a little bit, but it's really going to be a matter of consensus, and then someone in the community stepping up to the plate to implement something.
The proposals have "triggers" attached, like, "if SOPA is going to a floor vote, trigger blackout 48 hours beforehand" (that's just an example). Nobody has yet talked about a trigger in sympathy with a site like Reddit.
In my opinion, while it might make sense for Reddit to go dark when kn0thing is testifying before a committee, I think there is some risk of weighing in too early. You can't do this sort of thing twice.
The Wikimedia Foundation will support whatever the community decides. And the community is not waiting for a "money bomb" or whatever. So I don't think donations are going to matter in the slightest.
Activists' support for a boycott may influence it a little bit, but it's really going to be a matter of consensus, and then someone in the community stepping up to the plate to implement something.
The proposals have "triggers" attached, like, "if SOPA is going to a floor vote, trigger blackout 48 hours beforehand" (that's just an example). Nobody has yet talked about a trigger in sympathy with a site like Reddit.
In my opinion, while it might make sense for Reddit to go dark when kn0thing is testifying before a committee, I think there is some risk of weighing in too early. You can't do this sort of thing twice.