The Mozilla Taiwan Community (MozTW) opposed a proposed web censorship bill in Taiwan that would allow blocking of websites by ISPs without a court order. In June 2013, MozTW blacked out their website and provided scripts for others to do the same in protest of the bill. The blackout campaign received over 12,000 visitors and media coverage. Though Mozilla Corporation did not take an official stance, MozTW fought independently under Mozilla's principles of an open internet.

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Irvin Chen
MozTW, Mozilla Taiwan Community
Oppose the Web Censorship Bill
What we have done in Taiwan
as a local Mozilla community

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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.

3. mozillaMozTW, Mozilla Taiwan Community
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)

4. mozillaMozTW, Mozilla Taiwan Community
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 bill
http://taipei-wikipedian.blogspot.tw/2013/05/sopa.html
We (MozTW) repost it on our blog
http://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

6. mozillaMozTW, Mozilla Taiwan Community
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 6/7
http://moztw.org/events/blackout/

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EXPLANATION
This 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

11. mozillaMozTW, Mozilla Taiwan Community
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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