<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> That saying does not apply here. The author says: <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><<But why should people here protest, they aren't from Iran . But you all that famous saying, 'First they came for the......>></span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">1. I didn't want to step into the trap of announcing that I am Iranian (it is known to many) hence I care about the issue. Because the logic of if you are not from somewhere you don't care about their issues is just flawed and purely nationalistic. Yes I might know the situation better but that does not mean every Iranian equally cares about it. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">2. We as a community at NCSG and ICANN did not sit and watch for sanctions to be applied to DNS. We brought the issue to the table and fought for it to be resolved. It was not liked by some because it did not fit their ideology and it was not revolutionary. And Iran was not the only affected country.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Farzaneh</font></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 11:36 AM <<a href="mailto:david_allen_ab63@post.harvard.edu">david_allen_ab63@post.harvard.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">[interleaved, below]<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 6, 2018, at 12:59 AM, farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com" target="_blank">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-1751629842308432631Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">...</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><<<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">But why should people here protest, they aren't from Iran>></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div>The sentence above is a very simplistic way of provocation. So I choose to ignore it. </div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-1751629842308432631gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Hmmm … seems the key part was not included in the quote above:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 12:38 AM parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p><font color="#be38f3">... But you all [know] that famous saying, 'First they came for
the......</font></p>
<span>parminder</span></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Of course the whole point of this apocryphal line: Those who might change outcomes do – indeed – ignore the warning signs, until too late, for them, too (and for everyone) …</div><div><br></div><div>David<br><br></div></div>____________________________________________________________<br>
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