Re: [liberationtech] Independent UK Critic of NBC has Twitter account suspended after network complains

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jillian, Maybe I was hasty in my commentary, but I have spent time reading so many "we're sorry" statements by companies that I've become slightly jaded. Blame South Park :) I also find it very difficult that NBC "didn't initially understand the re

[liberationtech] Volunteers vs Government: Mapping Beijing's Worst Flood in 60 years

Dear All, Thought this crowdsourced, citizen-based crisis map of Beijing floodsmay be of interest to some on this list. Thanks, PM ___ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech@lists.stanfor

Re: [liberationtech] Attachments

On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 08:38 +0200, Marcin de Kaminski wrote: > Could we please agree on not sending attachments with emails on the libtech > list? Important information can be enclosed as plain text. I think it's unlikely that the org sending them is actually reading this list. Mailman can be co

Re: [liberationtech] Attachments

I can understand the concern, however I'd ask whether mailman can be configured to deliver a reply message to the sender explaining why sending attachments is dangerous and how it is used by bad actors to deliver viruses and malware. I'm happy to write a draft of such a text. Brian On Aug 1, 2012

Re: [liberationtech] Volunteers vs Government: Mapping Beijing's Worst Flood in 60 years

Hey Beth, just in case you don't have it, this could be interesting for you. Cheers Fer L. Fernando Baron P. Ph.D. Candidate Information Science iSchool University of Washington Seattle, WA From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford

[liberationtech] RSF to launch leaked doc drop

Reporters sans frontiers announced that it is launching a new project to accept leaked docs from journalists, bloggers, dissidents, etc. It held a hackathon last week in Paris on the topic. Does anyone know more about it, i.e. has participated in the hackathon, have been invited to audit the code,

Re: [liberationtech] RSF to launch leaked doc drop

Hi, I have written a paper in French, there were guys from Telecomix, among others. Best, Sabine Blanc Journaliste @ OWNI OWNI, Prix ONA 2010 et 2011 General Excellence in Online Journalism, Non-English, Small Site 06 98 55 22 03 01 58 30 51 00 50

[liberationtech] EveryVote.org update / Design documents

Hi LibTech, I'd like to share below this tweet we put out announcing we'd like to help establish a federated vote sharing network. It contains a link contained to our current set of visual design documents (drafts) for EveryVote.org. Any questions or comments (or interest in helping!) would be muc

Re: [liberationtech] Independent UK Critic of NBC has Twitter account suspended after network complains

Hey y'all, *Simon* - I'm totally with you that Twitter's been leaps and bounds ahead of other companies in this space in terms of policy and transparency (and said as much to the NYTyesterd

Re: [liberationtech] Independent UK Critic of NBC has Twitter account suspended after network complains

> > *Bernard* - I get where you're coming from, I just do truly believe (and > perhaps because I know and trust a lot of their staff) that Twitter is > "different." Their track record has been pretty great too - standing up > for users in court, etc. (see: > https://www.eff.org/pages/who-has-your-

[liberationtech] Crowd Coordination Project (Kickstarter)

Hi Folks, I just launched a Kickstarter project that might be of interest. The short form is "smart documents," running in browsers as webapps, that talk to each other via P2P protocols - as a tool for keeping virtual teams and projects "on the same page." The project originated with some wor

Re: [liberationtech] Independent UK Critic of NBC has Twitter account suspended after network complains

*And this is something EFF could help with, by assisting young promising startups on their legal formation before they become the Googles, Facebooks, and Twitters of the world. * * * You're the second person to suggest that this week. I'll bring it up ;) On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Yosem Com

[liberationtech] special edition of IEEE Internet Computing on Internet Censorship and Control

Call for Papers for a special edition of IEEE Internet Computing on Internet Censorship and Control. The editors are looking for short (up to 5,000 words) articles on the technical, social, and political mechanisms and impacts of Internet censorship and control.They are soliciting both technical an

Re: [liberationtech] Internet/IB Mandates in the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012

It is also important to note that the Iran Threat Reduction act provides a fast track process to recipients of USG money for consideration of OFAC licenses on exporting software and hardware to Iran within 120 days of submission (§413). No such mechanism seems to be place for Syria, where on-the-g

Re: [liberationtech] liberationtech Digest, Vol 115, Issue 3

From: "liberationtech-requ...@lists.stanford.edu" To: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu   1. Re: Independent UK Critic of NBC has Twitter account       suspended after network complains   All of this endless literalist parsing of whether you can or cann

[liberationtech] New Org called Turbovote (Net-Assisted Voting) Looking for More Partners

Hi everyone, A former classmate of mine has started an organization that attempts to increase voter turnout by reducing the barriers to voting - if you're not tracking, only 57% of eligible voters actually voted in 2008. There are lots of reasons why people don't vote, but forgetting to get yours

Re: [liberationtech] liberationtech Digest, Vol 115, Issue 3

Again...if it's not fair game, then Twitter ought to change the wording of its rules to reflect that. On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Catherine Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > -- > *From:* "liberationtech-requ...@lists.stanford.edu" < > liberationtech-requ...@lists.stanford

Re: [liberationtech] liberationtech Digest, Vol 115, Issue 3

One shouldn't have to be literalist about the obvious *intent* of rules like this. They exist to prevent harassment, not to be literalized to death. Twitter shouldn't be party to a lynch mob -- that's what this was, and that's what so many things on Twitter are these days, like the massive hate

Re: [liberationtech] liberationtech Digest, Vol 115, Issue 3

Hi, I generally avoid engaging with you Catherine but I wanted to ask you some very specific questions that almost beg to be asked by your email. I have kept it on the list because I felt that if you could show evidence for your claims, we'd all be better for it. If not, I figured it would be nic

[liberationtech] Communication for Development in Asia-Pacific: new platform on line!

From: Suman Basnet *For immediate release:* *The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), the College of Development Communication of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) and the Communication for Sustainable