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Re: EFF call for signatures from Internet engineers against censorship

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Wed Dec 14 03:08:36 2011

Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:07:33 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Peter Eckersley <pde@eff.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111214021234.GA4101@xylophonic>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 06:12:34PM -0800,
 Peter Eckersley <pde@eff.org> wrote 
 a message of 86 lines which said:

>   To date, the leading role the US has played in this infrastructure
>   has been fairly uncontroversial [sic and re-sic] because America
>   is seen as a trustworthy arbiter and a neutral bastion of free
>   expression.

I am just a lurker on Nanog since I do not operate a network in North
America and therefore I hesitated to sign the letter but this sentence
is too much: it means you cannot sign unless you endorse this
ridiculous propaganda. It's bad to use the fight for freedom of speech
in this way :-(



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