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Foundation’s goals of advocating for the community in new ways, including fighting for content online, facilitating community discussions about critical legal WMF initiatives that affect the community, and providing information about legal and legislative issues that impact online content. For legal ethical reasons I (as well as the rest of the legal team) can only represent the Wikimedia Foundation and cannot be the attorney for the community or chapters, though the legal team often provides strong support to the community in many ways consistent with Wikimedia Foundation goals.
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