On Thu, 2014-12-11 at 22:29 +0000, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'd like to draw your attention to > > https://blog.torproject.org/blog/solidarity-against-online-harassment > > https://twitter.com/torproject/status/543154161236586496 > > > > One of our colleagues has been the target of a sustained campaign of > > harassment for the past several months. We have decided to publish this > > statement to publicly declare our support for her, for every member of > > our organization, and for every member of our community who experiences > > this harassment. She is not alone and her experience has catalyzed us to > > action. This statement is a start. > > > > I'd love to get your feedback on this post, and your thoughts on how to > > turn it into something more. This is a bigger struggle than just Tor's > > piece of it. > > The intensity of the language such as "Further, we will no longer hold > back out of fear or uncertainty from an opportunity to defend a member > of our community online", immediately caused people in two different > communities I'm a member of to express concern that this was basically > a declaration of war and that the Tor Project and the signing parties > might engage in activities like releasing backdoored software in an > effort to return fire. > > I was only able to respond that I didn't think that was the case, but > nothing in the document provides a strong basis to support that... and > also pointing out that these people could always be coerced and so > that risk exists regardless of any statements of intent, and so we > must audit and count on the auditing of others. Was "Our commitment to building and promoting strong anonymity technology is absolute" not good enough? This sounds like a very flaky reason to be not okay with a denouncement of online harassment. You might want to reconsider the communities you're a member of, if they have to look for reasons so hard for why a commitment against harassment of women on the Internet is such a bad thing. -- Sent from Ubuntu
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