Re: [liberationtech] White House Petition - Deny Visas to Censors

2013-02-09 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 1/29/13 5:18 PM, Tye, John N wrote: Hi everyone, A petition on whitehouse.gov calls for the U.S. to deny visas to anyone working to advance internet censorship, e.g. the builders of the Great Firewall. So far it has 8796 signatures -- and needs 91,204 by February 24 before the White

Re: [liberationtech] White House Petition - Deny Visas to Censors

2013-02-09 Thread Jillian C. York
Yes, Pranesh. But that would require our administration to actually acknowledge its existence and stop protecting ATT and the NSA. On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 4:14 AM, Pranesh Prakash pran...@cis-india.orgwrote: Tye, John N [2013-01-29 21:48]: A petition on whitehouse.gov calls for the U.S. to

Re: [liberationtech] White House Petition - Deny Visas to Censors

2013-02-09 Thread Shava Nerad
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Tye, John N ty...@state.gov wrote: Hi everyone, ** ** A petition on whitehouse.gov calls for the U.S. to deny visas to anyone working to advance internet censorship, e.g. the builders of the Great Firewall. So far it has 8796 signatures – and needs

Re: [liberationtech] White House Petition - Deny Visas to Censors

2013-02-09 Thread Trevor Timm
Also, I can't really think of a worse way people can advocate for free expression than banning people from this country with views that are different than theirs - no how repugnant those views are. On 2/9/13 2:59 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: Jillian C. York: Yes, Pranesh. But that would require

Re: [liberationtech] White House Petition - Deny Visas to Censors

2013-02-09 Thread Shava Nerad
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Trevor Timm tre...@eff.org wrote: Also, I can't really think of a worse way people can advocate for free expression than banning people from this country with views that are different than theirs - no how repugnant those views are. There are better ways to

Re: [liberationtech] White House Petition - Deny Visas to Censors

2013-02-09 Thread André Rebentisch
Am 10.02.2013 00:18, schrieb Shava Nerad: There are better ways to restrict trade than limiting visa issues -- but I think the intent was to put the power of restricting this into the hands of the State Department who might be assumed by the originator to be more sympathetic than the

Re: [liberationtech] Guidelines For Emergency Revolution Technology Deployment?

2013-02-09 Thread Nathan of Guardian
I don't know if something like this already exists, or if this is something that should be created, but I think something like this should be made and drawn up if something like this hasn't been done yet. There are many guides and training materials out there - see the CryptoParty handbook,

Re: [liberationtech] Guidelines For Emergency Revolution Technology Deployment?

2013-02-09 Thread Shava Nerad
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Threedev zerothree...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings LibTech: I was looking online for any information on what activists and individuals can do in regards to technology deployment if there was ever a sudden flareup in protests and mass chaos that could lead to