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> On Oct 15, 2013, at 16:16, "Jillian C. York" <jilliancy...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Joseph Lorenzo Hall <j...@cdt.org> wrote: >> >> >> On 10/11/13 9:43 AM, LilBambi wrote: >> > >> > I hope others may also consider making the hard decision to join EFF >> > in leaving this group until they can be more effective. It is scary to >> > think that faith in a group of this nature can no longer be trusted >> > because of government meddling. >> >> Frankly, I hope the opposite (that this spurs deeper engagement between >> civil society and GNI members). > > Hi - EFFer here. > > I agree with Joseph. We didn't leave so that others would follow, we left > because we could no longer in good faith cosign GNI statements when companies > can't be honest with us. > > I would sincerely hope that our leaving puts the remaining NGO > representatives in a better position to push the companies harder. GNI > membership offers quite a few benefits for many of the international (and > domestic) groups that take part, so the best outcome here would be for it to > become a stronger organization than it has been. > > Best, > Jillian > >> >> -- >> Joseph Lorenzo Hall >> Senior Staff Technologist >> Center for Democracy & Technology >> 1634 I ST NW STE 1100 >> Washington DC 20006-4011 >> (p) 202-407-8825 >> (f) 202-637-0968 >> j...@cdt.org >> PGP: https://josephhall.org/gpg-key >> fingerprint: BE7E A889 7742 8773 301B 4FA1 C0E2 6D90 F257 77F8 >> >> >> >> -- >> Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of >> list guidelines will get you moderated: >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, >> change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at >> compa...@stanford.edu. > > > > -- > Note: I am slowly extricating myself from Gmail. Please change your address > books to: jilliancy...@riseup.net or jill...@eff.org. > > US: +1-857-891-4244 | NL: +31-657086088 > site: 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 > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > compa...@stanford.edu.
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