David is putting words in my mouth here.<br><br>What I have said ( in internal ISOC-NY discussion) is that we should be careful about<br>blindly attaching our name to activist statements - even if we support the principles<br>
behind them. I believe that if we do so we may risk our considerable prestige as an<br>organization that is dedicated to an open internet regardless of politics. That means<br>having a regard for widely differing points of view on some social matters.<br>
<br>I think we saw here on this list, in the recent discussion on the OneWebDay pledge,<br>just how easy it is for seemingly innocuous statements to be misconstrued.<br><br>joly<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:50 AM, David Solomonoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:president@isoc-ny.org">president@isoc-ny.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Joly has dismissed the endorsement of this type of statement as<br>
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