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

[Joly MacFie]

I just enabled SSL for isoc-ny's website.. Wasn't so hard.

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On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:

> 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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