On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 08:30:35PM +0200, Lunar wrote: > Virgil Griffith: > > The only part that concerns me is explicitly defining "We advance human > > rights" as part of Tor's core mission. > > > > The problem is that many people who need Tor the most live in countries in > > which Tor's active alignment with liberal human rights advocacy would > > substantially (certainly non-negligibly) increase the chance of Tor being > > banned. > > If we are going to think strategy, I suggest that we pause on a more > pressing problem from my point of view. We really need to keep Tor legal > in places where it has been embrassed or tolerated so far. > > That means we need the general population and lawmakers of countries > which signed the universal declaration of human rights to understand > that you can't properly exercise articles 12 (privacy), 18 (freedom of > thoughts), 19 (freedom of expression), 20 (freedom of association), 27 > (knowledge sharing) in a digital world. > > By reclaiming our narative on why we make Tor from the > deep-dark-marina-abyssal web depicted by clickbait headlines, we give > ourselves one more stand that should help us to keep doing what we do. Strongly agree. -- https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
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