Never mind, now it looks like this email jumped my FSFE folder somehow and landed in my inbox. Hopefully I am already removed from the new list. Sorry for the confusion.
On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 10:50 AM William Carlson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Daniel > > How can I unsubscribe from the "lists.fsfellowship.eu" mailing list? I > didn't sign up the first time (a few weeks ago) so I unsubscribed. Now it > seems I have been subscribed again? > > Thanks for letting me know. > Best > William > > > On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 10:14 AM Daniel Pocock <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> Matthias Kirschner sent an email recently using the word Fraud. >> >> If any of you downloaded the mailing list data that FSFE made available, >> what you have done is much like browsing a list of your friend's friends >> on social media. Millions of people do that every day. >> >> Europe's stringent new privacy regulation, the GDPR, is for enterprises. >> FSFE e.V. is regulated under GDPR. You and I, as volunteers, are >> private individuals and we are not subject to that regulation. >> >> We can talk to each other. >> >> In a free country, citizens communicating with each other are not >> committing any crime. >> >> Please don't be afraid of Kirschner when he behaves like a toddler, >> stamping his foot and throwing tantrums. >> >> In Nazi Germany and the GDR, fear reigned and people were discouraged >> from talking to each other. Kirschner's email is a blatant attempt to >> maintain a similar culture of fear. >> >> Kirschner appointed his staff and friends to be the only official >> members of FSFE e.V. so he never has to face a real vote. Is a leader >> who is appointing his employees to vote for him a real leader, or simply >> a coward? >> >> In the middle ages, feudal lords, like Kirschner, didn't put themself up >> for election either. They wanted to be president for life, like the >> despotic dictators of impoverished countries. Every now and then, the >> feudal lord would burn a witch or lock somebody in the stocks to keep >> the community afraid. Can you see echoes of this in the way Kirschner >> has treated a volunteer, your fellowship representative, for talking >> about censorship? >> >> Kirschner has spent more than a year spreading defamation behind my >> back. That is how he sought to undermine your decision to vote for me. >> Now we have seen it in his public email. Some people asked me why I >> kept this going: I didn't, I resigned in September 2018. Kirschner has >> kept it going in numerous ways. >> >> For many years, the FSFE web site invited you to Join. But you were >> never recorded as members. You never received invitations to the annual >> meeting. Was the "Join" button a Fraud organized by Kirschner? >> >> FSFE told you that you could vote for a representative. The President, >> Matthias Kirschner, insisted on exercising control over communications >> from the representative to the community, even secretly applying a >> communications policy[1] to the representative. Is that real >> representation? Or was that potentially an example of Kirschner's FSFE >> making a Fraud? >> >> FSFE e.V. has been registered as a charitable organization for tax >> purposes. However, FSFE's focus has changed dramatically from pursuing >> what is best for society to getting what is best for the corporate >> donors like Google. It is perfectly OK for businesses to set up lobby >> groups: but it isn't OK for them to masquerade as charities and profit >> from taxpayers and the work of unpaid volunteers. Herr Kirschner, >> could the charitable registration be a Fraud? >> >> Kirschner claims that FSFE is transparent and makes reference to >> Transparency International. Yet the published[2] accounts are the most >> opaque set of accounts I've ever seen. Even Swiss banks reveal more. >> Could the Transparency claim be a Fraud? >> >> Matthias Kirschner wrote a long email last week making many references >> to legal counsel and law enforcement. There has been no communication >> whatsoever from both legal counsel and law enforcement. Not one >> lawyer's letter, not one inquiry from police. No SWAT teams and no >> Panzer tanks crawling up the street. >> >> Authorized downloads of the mailing list are simply not a crime. >> >> Kirschner's email looks like the behaviour of somebody who is not a >> police officer putting on a police uniform and pretending to be a >> policeman. Matthias Kirschner, is your email itself the biggest Fraud? >> >> Regards, >> >> Daniel >> >> >> 1. https://fsfellowship.eu/assets/fsfe-communications-policy.pdf >> 2. https://fsfe.org/about/funds/2017.en.html >> >> -- >> Former FSFE Fellowship Representative >> >> Debian Developer >> >> https://danielpocock.com >> >
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