Re: [Foundation-l] Iran plans to turn off Internet

2012-01-11 Thread Gregory Varnum
Perhaps if Iran makes this official publicly, or they actually do it, the Foundation, or maybe some volunteers, can respond via the blog? At least that gets it into the discourse - but doesn't commit the Foundation itself to anything. I'm optimistic it will be resolved first through political

Re: [Foundation-l] Iran plans to turn off Internet

2012-01-10 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Mono mium monom...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately, the kind of political action editors wished to promote in situations like Italy or the USA wouldn't have the same effect in more restrictive countries like China or Iran. This is not accurate. People are

Re: [Foundation-l] Iran plans to turn off Internet

2012-01-08 Thread Mono mium
Unfortunately, the kind of political action editors wished to promote in situations like Italy or the USA wouldn't have the same effect in more restrictive countries like China or Iran. On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.comwrote: Given the conversations about

Re: [Foundation-l] Iran?

2009-06-22 Thread Nikola Smolenski
David Gerard wrote: 2009/6/21 Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net: Sure, transparency is a problem, but its absence alone does not imply fraud. It hurts the Iranian authorities even more if the vote count is accurate because nobody believes them. Evidence the numbers were made up: humans are

Re: [Foundation-l] Iran?

2009-06-21 Thread Ray Saintonge
Robert Rohde wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote: While there may very well have been widespread fraud, that alone wouldn't be enough to explain away a 29 percentage point spread. A strong line of national security scare-mongering is always

Re: [Foundation-l] Iran?

2009-06-21 Thread David Gerard
2009/6/21 Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net: Sure, transparency is a problem, but its absence alone does not imply fraud.  It hurts the Iranian authorities even more if the vote count is accurate because nobody believes them. Evidence the numbers were made up: humans are not very good at

Re: [Foundation-l] Iran?

2009-06-21 Thread Nathan
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:00 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Evidence the numbers were made up: humans are not very good at picking random numbers: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/20/AR200906204.html (This is way off-topic ...) Convincing,

Re: [Foundation-l] Iran?

2009-06-20 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 3:00 PM, philippephilippe.w...@gmail.com wrote: Just wondering whether anyone's had a check in from any of our wikimedians in Iran?  Any safety reports on our folks? Good question. I just know that Mardetanha (a steward) is physically good and frustrated with election

Re: [Foundation-l] Iran?

2009-06-20 Thread philippe
Thanks, Milos... i was concerned about Mardetanha because of my connection to him on Elec Comm, good to know he's well. Now let's see what we can find out about the rest of our folks! Thanks. On Jun 20, 2009, at 9:21 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: Good question. I just know that Mardetanha (a

Re: [Foundation-l] Iran?

2009-06-20 Thread Milos Rancic
I've got the first report. There are no information that something happened to any Wikimedian. Take a look at [1]. I don't expect bigger scale problems in Iran, but not just because of that analysis. Except theocratic structures, preset situation in Iran reminds me a lot to the situation in

Re: [Foundation-l] Iran?

2009-06-20 Thread Ray Saintonge
Milos Rancic wrote: I've got the first report. There are no information that something happened to any Wikimedian. Take a look at [1]. I don't expect bigger scale problems in Iran, but not just because of that analysis. Except theocratic structures, preset situation in Iran reminds me a lot

Re: [Foundation-l] Iran?

2009-06-20 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2009/6/20 Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net: Milos Rancic wrote: I've got the first report. There are no information that something happened to any Wikimedian. Take a look at [1]. I don't expect bigger scale problems in Iran, but not just because of that analysis. Except theocratic