Hi<div><br></div><div>Sorry for the terse reply. Thanks for sharing. </div><div><br></div><div>I guess I have been annoyed for some time at binary and moralistic discourse discourse (good guys and bad guys) in human rights. In addition to being polarising ,it misses the point that humans are complex creatures and that human rights and rule of law are complex processes that require evolution and nurturing towards good.</div><div><br></div><div>For example, Germany, the new "leader of the free world" has this year promulgated one of the worst internet laws ever in terms of digital rights - Russia just copy pasted it. Is Germany now a "villain"? Or is the answer more complex and involves a move in a bad direction.</div><div><br></div><div>Also the "heroes" in tech thing, in addition to being gendered, is dangerous - the Jacob Appelbaum affair being a case in point.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 29 Aug 2017, 18:59 Renata Aquino Ribeiro <<a href="mailto:raquino@gmail.com">raquino@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi<br>
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I guess the fact that villains only multiply exponentially contributes to it.<br>
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On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Alex Comninos <<a href="mailto:alex.comninos@gmail.com" target="_blank">alex.comninos@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Why always the heroes and villains trope?<br>
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> On Sun, 27 Aug 2017, 17:07 Renata Aquino Ribeiro <<a href="mailto:raquino@gmail.com" target="_blank">raquino@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Awards will be given in Rightscon 2018 Toronto<br>
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>> <a href="https://www.accessnow.org/now-accepting-nominations-fourth-annual-heroes-villains-awards/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.accessnow.org/now-accepting-nominations-fourth-annual-heroes-villains-awards/</a><br>
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