Dear Stephen:
Thank you for your requests and the information you have been sending. It is deeply appreciated. I agree with the Italian and Philippines' protest, and I wonder why the protest in Russia is not much stronger. What if someone asked Putin about specific instances of blacklist leakages and the scandals which resulted from those? In any case, I have several more questions:
Does the Foundation intend to take a position on the Bradley Manning case? A plea of not guilty for lack of scienter is unavailable in military court. Does the Foundation support his attempt to enter that plea? Does the Foundation believe that Manning's likely conclusion given the evidence available to him was that he was upholding the spirit of the law while deliberately violating the letter? Does the Foundation support Manning's motion to dismiss for lack of a speedy trial?
Will the Foundation please ask the Secretary of Defense to declare that patents which adversely affect national security including the security inherent in computer programming education as necessary to perform computer security audits must be available under reasonable and non-discriminatory license terms?
Will the Foundation please support pro-education policies such as class size reduction, pay equality by increased pay for women, tuition subsidies for gross fixed capital formation, and evaluation of publication impact by readership as well as reputation?
Will the Foundation please support general devolution of power to people equally? For example: http://j.mp/amendmentact
Best regards, James Salsman
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Stephen LaPorte slaporte@wikimedia.org wrote:
The BBC has a story on the law that the Russian Wikipedia community protested:
If the websites themselves cannot be shut down, internet service providers (ISPs) and web hosting companies can be forced to block access to the offending material.
The list of banned website will be managed by Roskomnadzor (Russia's Federal Service for Supervision in Telecommunications, Information Technology and Mass Communications). It is meant to be updated daily, but its contents are not available to the general public.
Dear Stephen:
One more question, please. Will the Foundation please endorse http://googlequitthechamber.org ?
Thanks again, James
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 7:11 AM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Stephen:
Thank you for your requests and the information you have been sending. It is deeply appreciated. I agree with the Italian and Philippines' protest, and I wonder why the protest in Russia is not much stronger. What if someone asked Putin about specific instances of blacklist leakages and the scandals which resulted from those? In any case, I have several more questions:
Does the Foundation intend to take a position on the Bradley Manning case? A plea of not guilty for lack of scienter is unavailable in military court. Does the Foundation support his attempt to enter that plea? Does the Foundation believe that Manning's likely conclusion given the evidence available to him was that he was upholding the spirit of the law while deliberately violating the letter? Does the Foundation support Manning's motion to dismiss for lack of a speedy trial?
Will the Foundation please ask the Secretary of Defense to declare that patents which adversely affect national security including the security inherent in computer programming education as necessary to perform computer security audits must be available under reasonable and non-discriminatory license terms?
Will the Foundation please support pro-education policies such as class size reduction, pay equality by increased pay for women, tuition subsidies for gross fixed capital formation, and evaluation of publication impact by readership as well as reputation?
Will the Foundation please support general devolution of power to people equally? For example: http://j.mp/amendmentact
Best regards, James Salsman
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Stephen LaPorte slaporte@wikimedia.org wrote:
The BBC has a story on the law that the Russian Wikipedia community protested:
If the websites themselves cannot be shut down, internet service providers (ISPs) and web hosting companies can be forced to block access to the offending material.
The list of banned website will be managed by Roskomnadzor (Russia's Federal Service for Supervision in Telecommunications, Information Technology and Mass Communications). It is meant to be updated daily, but its contents are not available to the general public.
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