[Advocacy Advisors] agreement and questions (was re: BBC - Russia internet blacklist law takes effect)

Tue Nov 13 16:15:06 UTC 2012

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 at 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 at 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.
>>
>>
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20096274