Re: [liberationtech] Muslims do not feel safe any more

[Al Billings]

Maybe not in your country...

> On Jul 5, 2016, at 7:45 PM, Cristina [efecto99]  wrote:
> 
> Free speech cannot be allowed if it contain racial, religious, gender or any 
> other similar discrimination, because could become an apology for xenophobia, 
> etc.

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Re: [liberationtech] Muslims do not feel safe any more

[Cristina [efecto99]]

On 15/06/16 14:25, Thomas Delrue wrote:
> On 06/15/2016 12:44 PM, Maria Al-Masani wrote:
>
>> I briefly supported Trump before he started going crazy.
> There was a /before/? (sorry, couldn't resist)

me neither: there was??!!
>
>> I support the right of the left and right wing to discuss their ideas, but
>> when it comes to bismerching and dehumanizing a group in society - whether
>> it's men "it's the patriachy" or "all Muslims" for evil, allowing it hurts
>> the quality of life.
> I'm willing to believe the first part of your claim ("I support the
> right of the left and right wing to discuss their ideas"),
> unfortunately, it is followed with a 'but' and what follows seems to
> create a discrepancy with the initial claim.
> Anyone has the right to free speech, but no-one has the right to force
> you to listen.
It seems Thomas you are from a country that privilege free speech over
any other human right. To know what are we talking about when we claim
about freedom of speech there is a document from NU that explain that
human right (notice than HR are not ideal ideas descending from Heaven:
they are agreements made after abuses from a part of the humanity
against other people, in fact US didn't ratify most of the HR agreements).*
Free speech cannot be allowed if it contain racial, religious, gender or
any other similar discrimination, because could become an apology for
xenophobia, etc.
There is a thin line between freedom of speech and apology of
violence/crimes/etc. and not always is simple to identify where one ends
and the other starts, then sorry, but is not as simply as "you have the
right of don't listen to it".

>> What should people like us do?
> First: don't curtail or limit free speech. Don't even suggest limiting
> it; you wouldn't like the world we'd end up with. Sure, you'll hear
> things you won't like and don't agree with, but so what, you're an adult
> and you can deal with that!
>
> Second: turn off your television and get off of twitter, facebook and
> the like, in fact, stay off of the intertubes for a couple of days. Get
> out of the echo chamber and go out campaigning for what you believe in.
>
> Exercise your right to free speech, while you can, until someone who
> doesn't like what /you/ are saying, tries to censor /you/.

Good advices. I will suggest one more to Maria and the rest of the
readers too: take a look at http://sister-hood.com/ and to the work of
this amazing woman, Deeyah Khan http://deeyah.com/. She is an
inspiration and a dedicate worker for Human Rights and she understand
particularly the muslims people -specially women- situation on the light
of the "war against terrorism". You will not regret of reading and
contact those references I'm sharing with you.

In hope of peace,

Cristina, from Argentina

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_treaties_unsigned_or_unratified_by_the_United_States

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[liberationtech] The future of Digital Rights in the EU: Meet with MEPs Marietje Schaake, Kaja Kalals in SF, July 18th, 6PM

[Danny O'Brien]

Libtech folks:

This month's San Francisco Techno-Activism Third Monday has two very special
guest speakers, who I thought you would all appreciate:

MARIETJE SCHAAKE, one of the leading lights in Internet issues in the European
Parliament, and KAJA KALLAS, who as a Parliamentary member for Estonia has been
pushing for the EU to eliminate borders in the digital world. She's also the
vice chair of the EU-Ukraine co-operation committee.

Both will be talking and answering questions on a wide range of digital issues
including freedom of speech, internet governance, intermediary liability, net
neutrality, and export controls. If you're looking for insight in how Europe's
governments are planning to deal with the Internet, digital security, and
Silicon Valley, I can't think of two better people to hear it from.

TA3M starts at 6PM on Monday July 18th, at EFF's offices in San Francisco.
We're at 815 Eddy St, SF, CA 94109; https://eff.org/815eddy . 

More info at:
https://www.eff.org/event/techno-activism-third-mondays-sf-july-2016

Best,

d.


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[liberationtech] Safe communications among media activist communties

[mshelton]

At The Coral Project we're conducting research to learn about safe 
communications among media activist communities and civil society 
groups. If you can help or know someone who can, please check out the 
short survey here: 
https://oasis.sandstorm.io/shared/G3FdYnMhqoxpquvoQCsVHLPeBqx47pctUdDHzaAjDrh


Feel free to reach out with any thoughts or questions.

Thanks so much,
Martin

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Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow 
New York Times + Coral Project
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[liberationtech] Fwd: Hacks/Hackers global call coming up tomorrow!

[Steven Clift]

See:
http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=c56f2e53d5ed6ef87f8aaa75c=e72dbb79be=305ffa5ca0

For my civic tech and gov friends also interested in the intersection on
civic tech and media.
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From: "Hacks/Hackers" 
Date: Jul 4, 2016 9:21 AM
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Updates from Hacks/Hackers chapters around the world.
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Welcome to July, hacks and hackers! In the first half of 2016, H/H chapters
held nearly 100 meetups in dozens of cities. We also held seven *Connect
events*

from San Francisco to London, with another coming up in *Toronto in a
couple months*

.


Next week, we're holding our *monthly global call*
,
so please join in!


*The week ahead:*

   - *Miami*
   

   is holding OpenHack Miami
   - *IRE*
   

   is meeting for its regular open lab
   - Hacks/Hackers is holding its *global monthly call*
   


*Chapter spotlight:*

*London*

held its *June meetup last week*
,
looking at polling data just before the Europe-shaking Brexit vote. The
London meetups draw huge crowds of up to 200 people a month, so the
organizers built a list of tasks ahead of time.


Organizer *Joanna Geary*

shared the templates they use for assigning *roles*

and* tasks*
.
"This means everyone knows what they have to do and stops too many
last-minute panics!" she said.

*Worth a read:*

   - That surge of Britons "frantically Googling" the EU after Brexit
   turned out to be *under than a thousand people*
   

   (Medium)
   - The FAA finally announced its rules for drones, and Matt Waite
   explains *what that means*
   

   for drone journalists (Drone Journalism Lab)
   - Social networks are *quietly beginning to ban*
   

   extremist content using algorithms (Reuters)

*Job openings:*

   - Europe:
  - The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is hiring a *Data Lab
  director*
  

  - Storyful is hiring a *journalist*
  

  in the UK
   - North America:
  - Vox is hiring a *graphics reporter*
  

  in Washington, D.C.
  - Conde Nast is hiring a *data engineer*
  

  in New York
  - The NYT has several *data analyst positions*
  

  open
  - The New Yorker is looking for an *editorial production developer*
  

  - EdSurge is seeking a *data journalist*