Andrew wrote: > # Highlights > (...) > - Looked into legality of receiving a large financial donation from a > country on the US Treasury embargoed list. Unsurprisingly, we cannot > accept such a donation due to the source.
That has to be a violation of your rights. Whatever country gives you money in form of an donation should be perfectly fine. You are not doing business with them, they give you the money an that's it. (Otherwise it wouldn't be a donation. If I demand something specific for the money it is no longer a donation, it becomes sponsorship or a business relationship.) Money is speech, isn't it? It's just a promise.* If that is true, then preventing you from taking money is a violation of your first amendment. Couldn't this country pay coders, working under their guidance? Code is speech as well. I understand that this is difficult, because money does nothing. You take money from the US government and that itself won't try anything stupid, however some payed coders working for some government (or company) might attempt such thing. Money is money; independent from the source. If payed contribution is ruled out for that donor (whoever that is), because of its country how could the money get to you? Maybe the donor gives it to some middle-man that is not on the blacklist. The middle-man then transfers the money to you. (This has to be legal, because that is done with weapons as well. Countries not allowed to sell weapons to some country, sell it to their friendly surrounding countries and the weapons end up where they were wanted in the first place.) I'm not living in your country, but would it help to write some congressman? It truly has to be handled in a different way for non-profit organizations. (Especially for those that physically help people, e.g. medical help.) Best Regards, Sebastian G. (bastik) * All your (and my) money (paper, coins, digital) isn't worth much, without common acceptance. Mostly bound to a single entity like the state issuing the money. (I'm not allowed to print it myself.) The entity controls what the money is worth. It promises to stay behind its currency in order to let you obtain goods for it. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk