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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