[Chapter-delegates] Reset the Net ... ?

[Evan Leibovitch]

Hello all,

I notice a new initiative, "Reset the Net <https://www.resetthenet.org/>",
being launched.

Its aim is to get more websites to use HTTPS, and to encourage more end
users to learn and use surveillance-resistant tools.

Central to the campaign is to declare June 5, the one year anniversary of
the first Snowden-derived news leak, as "reset the net day". On that day,
participating sites would sport an appropriate banner. The site is also
collecting signatures for a "pledge" to implement resistant tools.

Current supporters include Greenpeace, the Free Software Foundation,
Reddit, and about a dozen smaller orgs. Missing from the list is the EFF
and especially ISOC and any chapters. I also have not heard mention of it
here before,

Exclusion can be for one of a number of reasons, I'd like to know if any of
these apply:


   - ISOC and/or chapters are not aware of the campaign (if so, now it is
   :-) )

   - ISOC and/or chapters are aware of the campaign but do not agree with
   all its aims or tactics

   - There are just too many of these unconnected campaigns (OpenStand,
   Necessary and Proportionate, etc) and they are losing their power because
   they all are starting to look the same

   - ISOC is working on its own campaign along these lines

   - Reset the Net is too US-specific (very NSA-specific, no translations)


Comments?

-- 
Evan Leibovitch
Canada Chapter
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