[tor-talk] Tor project supporters?

[Griffin Boyce]

Juan wrote:
> I once was told that the swedish governemnt and the americunt military
> were great supporter of 'free speech'...or something like that?

   As an Americunt, I take exception to that!  From where I stand, the 
issue seems much more to do with SIF's policies not matching their 
founding principles than some broader outside influence.  And of course 
this decision to blacklist people has led to a huge backlash.  To claim 
that they had no choice but to blacklist Laura Poitras is total 
horseshit and gives the organizers *far* too much credit.  They did it 
either because they were cowards or because they're trying to curry 
favor.

   The fact that the theme this year is surveillance and privacy, yet 
they explicitly excluded Poitras should be taken as proof that they 
don't want a true discussion of the true impact that these surveillance 
policies have.

~Griffin