Yes, Pranesh. But that would require our administration to actually acknowledge its existence and stop protecting AT&T and the NSA.
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 4:14 AM, Pranesh Prakash <[email protected]>wrote: > Tye, John N [2013-01-29 21:48]: > > 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. > > I don't quite get the point of this. Should other countries prevent > those responsible for the building of Room 614A[1] from being granted > visas? Should employees of Narus and Verint and Pen-Link be prevented > from travelling at all? > > While I am all for arguing that the issue of moral complicity cannot be > ignored ("it *is* my department"), I am not quite clear why visa-denial > is a useful response. > > [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A > > -- > Pranesh Prakash > Policy Director > Centre for Internet and Society > T: +91 80 40926283 | W: http://cis-india.org > PGP ID: 0x1D5C5F07 | Twitter: @pranesh_prakash > > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- US: +1-857-891-4244 | NL: +31-657086088 site: jilliancyork.com <http://jilliancyork.com/>* | * twitter: @jilliancyork* * "We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality" - *Vaclav Havel*
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