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 our administration to actually >> acknowledge its existence and stop protecting AT&T and the NSA. >> > That was my first thought - we should consider how we might equally > apply this standard. I suspect we'd just all sit back and laugh as > rather than punishing these people, we gave them immunity and then > extended their criminal activity into normal state business. > > All the best, > Jake > >> 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 >>> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >> > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Trevor Timm Activist Electronic Frontier Foundation [email protected] 415.436.9333 ext. 104 www.eff.org 454 Shotwell Street San Francisco, CA 94110 Defending your civil liberties in the digital world. -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
