Could you educate us with some more details on that? A link to the specific legislation would be great. On a quick web search, I can see this:
http://www.njnonprofits.org/NPsCanLobby.html which only talks about spending money on lobbying, implying that costless efforts (like having a banner on your website) are perfectly fine. X Michael Grube: > I'm somewhat familiar with 501c3 rules. Ian's correct, it's not legal for > the Freenet project to officially have a political agenda. > > Tor project is probably also in violation. > On Jun 25, 2016 2:57 PM, "Ximin Luo" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ian Clarke: >>> Even more seriously, it may put us in violation of US law because we are >> a 501c3 >>> non-profit, which are restricted in the political and lobbying >> activities they >>> can participate in while claiming 501c3 status. >> >> I don't see the banner now, but I would just like to point out that the >> Tor project is also a 501c3 non-profit and they are also protesting against >> Rule 41. >> >> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/day-action-stop-changes-rule-41 >> >> I don't know the specific restrictions about lobbying though, so it >> *could* be the case that they're also in violation. But I think this is >> less likely. >> >> X >> >> -- >> GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35 >> GPG: rsa4096/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE >> https://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git >> _______________________________________________ >> Devl mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [email protected] > https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35 GPG: rsa4096/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE https://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
