[tor-talk] Tor project supporters?

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Wikileaks and Snowden were blacklisted, but Laura Poitras boycotted in protest of the people who really mattered being excluded. When the most serious threat to the Internet is off limits of discussion, the discussion becomes pointless.

 
--
Christopher Booth

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 From: krishna e bera <keb at cyblings.on.ca>
To: tor-talk at lists.torproject.org 
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor project supporters?
 

Seems clear to me, the right thing to do is boycott the event or at least
deplore the ban, individually and as organizations.  Any chance of Tor
Project signing onto such thing?



On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Griffin Boyce <griffin at cryptolab.net>wrote:

> 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
>
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