Hi Aditya, I am sorry to learn of these circumstances. I cannot speak for the PSF, but I know as a former officer that its non-profit status could be jeopardised were it to promote political ideas of any kind.
I note with some regret that this message has only come to my attention after the closing date for responses to the public consultation. As a fellow human being I sympathise with your community, and I hope many other readers will individually support your calls to action as I intend to. Kind regards, Steve On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 7:38 AM Aditya Bholah <aditya.bhola...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > It is sad for me to be in such a position to reach out. The situation in > my country, Mauritius, is serious. I know that the PSF's objectives are > different from this situation, however free speech and internet privacy are > about to be breached. > > On 14th of April 2021[1], while the country was under national lockdown > due to the global pandemic, the Information and Communication Technologies > Authority of Mauritius (ICTA) which is a parastatal body regulating ICT > laws in the country released a proposal for intercepting, monitoring, > archiving and manipulating social media traffic using a man-in-the-middle > style attack[2]. > > This proposal is mostly similar to what Kazakhstan has done. It involves > the installation of a custom root certificate to enable decryption of > traffic by the ICTA. > > My humble request to the community is to share this, send your comments on > this proposal to socialmediaconsultat...@icta.mu and to support in this > fight. > > [1] https://www.icta.mu/mediaoffice/2021/social_media_news.html > > [2] https://www.icta.mu/docs/2021/Social_Media_Public_Consultation.pdf > > Cheers, > Aditya Bholah > _______________________________________________ > PSF-Community mailing list > PSF-Community@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community >
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