[bestbits] [governance] Whether to participate in NETmundial Initiative - RFC

Carlos Afonso ca at cafonso.ca
Thu Nov 20 13:04:22 EST 2014


Where is it stated that the declaration of São Paulo (principles and 
roadmap of NETmundial) are "final"??

--c.a.

On 11/20/14 10:47, Renata Avila wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I do not write often in this list, but, as I made it clear earlier at
> the closing ceremony of Net Mundial Initiative, I am really concerned at
> any effort adopting the Net Mundial ¨final¨ outcome as such, as final.
> Mrs. Rousseff started her crusade as an effort to tackle or at least,
> somehow, regulate the pervasive surveillance from a group of governments
> against all citizens. The result was a monster, the process was flawed,
> the language against massive surveillance was weak, the introduction the
> language to please the copyright lobby really undermined solid,
> multiyear efforts of the copyright reformists, too. Adopting such
> document, which so far is just the result of an event outside the
> regular events around Internet Governance is simply dangerous and silly,
> because in no way is a big victory for two of the most important battles
> for the future of our knowledge societies, of our free societies. A
> rigid exam, or even an exam at first sight of the outcome document will
> show that it certainly fails to adopt the highest human rights standards.
>
> The other issue was participation. As you can see in the brilliant work
> by CIS India http://ajantriks.github.io/netmundial/index.html and the
> attached maps, the voices from the global south, especially the poorest
> countries from Africa and Latin America, where largely missing in the
> debates. It was a North lead debate. It was a highly specialised debate,
> but, paradoxically, with terrible flaws as there were Internet
> Governance experts, but, except for the very good contributions of
> privacy experts like Jacob Appelbaum and Copyright experts like Mishi,
> there was a vast lack of expertise, or at least no unity in key demands.
>
> So for me, in spite of the good faith of the Brazilians, any effort that
> will marry with the Net Mundial Final Document as such, as final, is
> flawed and has very little reform or even information potential for
> Civil Society. Because we will not be asking for and promoting the
> adoption of higher but lower standards, because the whole exercise lacks
> the voices and concerns for the very actors which will be the most
> affected by the adoption of such principles and roadmap as the one
> forward and because, again, very few of those who are not represented
> will be able to afford the time and resources that such initiative
> demands. So it will be again, a conversation among few.
>
> There is also the public v. private interest here, but that issue has
> been discussed extensively. My concern is basically the legitimacy we
> are giving to such disastrous outcome, reaching and promoting a new low.
>
> * This is a personal opinion and in no way reflects the opinion or
> position of the Web Foundation.
>
> Renata
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Jean-Christophe NOTHIAS I The Global
> Journal <jc.nothias at theglobaljournal.net
> <mailto:jc.nothias at theglobaljournal.net>> wrote:
>
>     Jeanette,
>
>     Thanks for sharing Anja's skepticism. But Anja has expressed, more
>     importantly in my opinion, precise questions and given detailed
>     information that ignited her skepticism. Where are the answers to
>     her questions? Anriette has made suggestions: where are the
>     reactions? Talking about relevant actors: is WEF a relevant actor?
>     WEF is a network of corporations, big ones. Shouldn't civil society
>     engage instead the smaller entrepreneurs, who creates much more jobs
>     that the WEF membership? What is the criteria to say that it is
>     worth to engage WEF rather than other groupings? WEF has a high
>     media added-value. I agree, but then just ask for a tribune in
>     Davos, to start with.
>
>     You question the qualified and trustworthy candidates, fine, but you
>     totally ignore to answer the pending questions by many of us: what
>     is this all about? Is this process worth the effort and, if NUY lab
>     is already elaborating the written conclusions of the initiative, do
>     we need to bother to write the conclusions of it with any qualified
>     and trustworthy candidate. If so, you should revise your judgement
>     and buy the argument (no copyright on this!) that those who are
>     willing to get involved are doing this for career purposes. Some
>     have already got their career boosted at ICANN and a few other cool
>     places, might feel that it would be smart for those without a
>     comfortable seat to join the carrousel of vanities.
>
>     Thanks
>     JC
>
>
>     Le 20 nov. 2014 à 12:43, Jeanette Hofmann a écrit :
>
>>     Hi all, I share Anja's skepticism but also Anriette's more
>>     principled stance on participating in new processes. We need to
>>     communicate with relevant actors in this field. Ultimately I think
>>     the pragmatic question is if we find a sufficient number of
>>     qualified and trustworthy candidates who are willing to contribute
>>     on our behalf in the NMI. Whether or not we have experienced
>>     people who want to participate is a valuable indicator in itself,
>>     don't you agree? (I don't buy the well-known argument that those
>>     who are willing to get involved do this for career purposes.)
>>     Jeanette
>>
>>     On 20 November 2014 11:49:06 CET, Ian Peter
>>     <ian.peter at ianpeter.com <mailto:ian.peter at ianpeter.com>> wrote:
>>>     Thanks Nnenna.
>>>
>>>     Yes, it is disappointing when we cannot tolerate differences of
>>>     opinion.
>>>
>>>     Anriette expressed respect for the JNC position, as have many others.
>>>     It would be good if this respect for differing opinions was
>>>     reciprocated.
>>>
>>>     The most substantial side effect for civil society discourse when
>>>     someones personal opinion is attacked rather than respected is that
>>>     people stop expressing themselves for fear of being attacked. It
>>>     would
>>>     be good if we concentrated on issues and arguing points of view. And
>>>     some voices have already been silenced on this issue.
>>>
>>>     We are not all going to agree on this one. But perhaps we can
>>>     agree to
>>>     respect differences of opinion.
>>>
>>>     Anriette has devoted the last 25 or so years of her life to building
>>>     APC as  “ an international network and non profit organisation that
>>>     wants everyone to have access to a free and open internet to improve
>>>     our lives and create a more just world”. No, she is not
>>>     abandoning the
>>>     pursuit of social justice.
>>>
>>>     Ian Peter
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     From: Nnenna Nwakanma
>>>     Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 9:26 PM
>>>     To: michael gurstein
>>>     Cc: Anriette Esterhuysen ; Anja Kovacs ; Governance ; Best Bits
>>>     Subject: Re: [bestbits] [governance] Whether to participate in
>>>     NETmundial Initiative - RFC
>>>
>>>     Wow! This "new reality" called Civil Society is beginning to amaze me
>>>     the more. Because someone thinks "Let us give something a shot, it is
>>>     not perfect, but it is making an effort" then it is being
>>>     construed as
>>>     abandoning the pursuit of social justice?
>>>
>>>
>>>     If there was a human being who fought for social justice, it was
>>>     Nelson
>>>     Mandela.  And it is him who said:
>>>     "If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with
>>>     your
>>>     enemy. Then he becomes your partner."
>>>
>>>
>>>     I will rest my case for now
>>>
>>>
>>>     Nnenna
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:13 AM, michael gurstein
>>>     <gurstein at gmail.com <mailto:gurstein at gmail.com>>
>>>     wrote:
>>>
>>>     So Anriette, I’m taking from your argument that because the NMI
>>>     offers
>>>     some possibility, however remote for the advancement of human rights,
>>>     you are completely abandoning perhaps irrevocably, the pursuit of
>>>     social justice.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     M
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     From: bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net
>>>     <mailto:bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net>
>>>     [mailto:bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net
>>>     <mailto:bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net>] On Behalf Of Anriette
>>>     Esterhuysen
>>>     Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 11:18 PM
>>>     To: Anja Kovacs; Nnenna Nwakanma
>>>     Cc: Governance; Best Bits
>>>     Subject: Re: [bestbits] [governance] Whether to participate in
>>>     NETmundial Initiative - RFC
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Dear all
>>>
>>>     I have been fairly silent on this issue and APC is consulting our
>>>     members about it at present. We have been really busy in APC with
>>>     project meetings, evaluations, planning, and also the African
>>>     School on
>>>     IG, so apologies for not participating.
>>>
>>>     Anja, thanks for asking for the view of Brazilian colleagues. I have
>>>     also asked people off list and thus far I get the sense that while
>>>     there are concerns, there is also a sense that it is worth giving the
>>>     process a try.
>>>
>>>     I felt that the the letter that Ian and the CSCG wrote was excellent,
>>>     and I feel that having them in place has put us in a stronger
>>>     position.
>>>     I also feel that JNC's decision to not be part of the process is
>>>     legitimate and clear.
>>>
>>>     I do see the pros and cons of participation a bit differently
>>>     from how
>>>     Ian had put them in an earlier message...perhaps not quite as 'black
>>>     and white'.
>>>
>>>     My feeling at this point is that some of the strong concerns we
>>>     expressed at the time of the NETmundial Initiative Launch in late
>>>     August have actually been addressed.
>>>
>>>     I don't particularly like the process... I would have liked more
>>>     transparency and consultation around the redesign of the process and
>>>     its mechanisms.
>>>
>>>     But I really do care about the NETmundial outcomes, and I believe we
>>>     should do our best to take it forward, to intergovernmental
>>>     spaces, at
>>>     national level, and through the IGF.  This might sound pretty
>>>     naive to
>>>     many but I still believe that the only sustainable path to inclusive
>>>     democratic multistakeholder internet policy and regulation is through
>>>     closer connections between multistakeholder and intergovernmental
>>>     processes and mechanisms.
>>>
>>>     I am at the airport and about to board.. so should be fast.
>>>
>>>     My view would be that civil society participates in the NMI with the
>>>     following:
>>>
>>>     - a set of indicators and criteriat that are important to us
>>>     - a limited timeframe
>>>     - agreed milestones including for a point at which we assess
>>>     whether we
>>>     continue or not
>>>
>>>
>>>     My proposal would be try and make the process work, and to link it
>>>     closely to the IGF and for civil society e.g. at Best Bits meeting to
>>>     get together prior to the 2015 IGF and then to assess whether our
>>>     particpation has had impact, whether we have been able to
>>>     influence the
>>>     process and whether it meets the criteria important to us.
>>>
>>>     This is a risk of course. And we could legitimise a process that
>>>     turns
>>>     out not to be worthy of it.  But I think it is a risk worth
>>>     taking, and
>>>     we can always withdraw.
>>>
>>>     Not trying is a greater risk as it could result in the most
>>>     progressive, to date, agreement on principles that respect human
>>>     rights
>>>     inclusive processes in internet governance simply fizzling out.  I
>>>     think that backtracking in that way on what we all achieved
>>>     through the
>>>     NETmundial would be a huge loss to changing how we think about, and
>>>     implement, internet governance.
>>>
>>>     Anriette
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     On 19/11/2014 21:59, Anja Kovacs wrote:
>>>
>>>       Dear all,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     A question. If any of the Brazilians on these lists could perhaps
>>>     shed
>>>     some light on why their government has decided to support this
>>>     initiative, and how they see it, that could possibly be very
>>>     helpful? I
>>>     have had great respect for Brazil and its work in the past, and can't
>>>     help but wonder whether I'm missing something here.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     For the moment, however, knowing what I know, I am still not in
>>>     favour
>>>     of civil society networks giving this their stamp of approval (though
>>>     as earlier, I also don't have an issue with individual organisations
>>>     who want to participate to continue doing so and report back to the
>>>     wider community). A WEF-ICANN alliance, even if backed by the
>>>     Brazilian
>>>     government, is just not the place I want to see emerge as a new power
>>>     centre in Internet governance - even less so as they have already
>>>     given
>>>     themselves some fixed seats.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     I've in particular been wondering what this selection and committee
>>>     means seeing that some of the initiatives the NMI would "foster"
>>>     clearly are already on the way. For example, I (and I know many
>>>     others
>>>     on this list too) have already been contacted by the Governance
>>>     Lab at
>>>     NYU to give feedback on a proposed NETmundial Solutions map that
>>>     would
>>>     be developed under the flag of the NMI. It's difficult not to
>>>     feel like
>>>     the only thing we and others would be doing is simply to rubberstamp
>>>     things that would happen anyway - but because we okay them,
>>>     somehow the
>>>     structure and the initiatives it gives birth to gain a legitimacy
>>>     that
>>>     they would not have had without. An unwise use of our power, I would
>>>     say (that they would go ahead without us anyway is something that a
>>>     representative from the WEF made clear enough to me in an informal
>>>     conversation in October. Some of the individual initiative, such as
>>>     that map, might have value, but about the structure as a whole, I am
>>>     not so certain)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     I would feel far more comfortable if we would instead start exploring
>>>     the constructive ways of going ahead with our own work suggested by
>>>     Amelia and others. I would love to hear more about what they're
>>>     thinking, and how we could operationalize this ourselves and take it
>>>     forward.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       Thanks and best,
>>>
>>>       Anja
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     On 19 November 2014 01:12, Nnenna Nwakanma <nnenna75 at gmail.com
>>>     <mailto:nnenna75 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Dear Governance and Best Bits listers, and especially African Civil
>>>     Society members here.
>>>
>>>     My opinion is that Civil Society should participate. It is okay to
>>>     table our "fears" and let NMI know that our participation may be
>>>     withdrawn if XYZ is not met.
>>>
>>>     I think it is fine for certain networks to say "No", but in Africa, I
>>>     dont think we should miss out.
>>>
>>>     NMI may also just make a public call for CS who wants to
>>>     participate.
>>>     From the launch, I already saw that some CS persons were already very
>>>     interested in the NMI.
>>>
>>>     I see it is okay if one network or list  or platform  decides NOT to
>>>     participate but we cannot ask others not to.
>>>
>>>     Me, I am in favour of Governance and BB lists nominating people.
>>>     And at
>>>     the same time, saying that it is important for African S to
>>>     participate.
>>>
>>>       All for now
>>>
>>>       Nnenna
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Jean-Christophe NOTHIAS I The Global
>>>     Journal <jc.nothias at theglobaljournal.net
>>>     <mailto:jc.nothias at theglobaljournal.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Jeremy,
>>>
>>>         Thanks for your email.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Looking after pathologies is certainly a noble cause, but as we
>>>     both do
>>>     not belong to the medical corpus, maybe it would simply be wise to
>>>     terminate this, and cool down a bit. Even though we are in real
>>>     politics.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Go after the arguments put on the table is probably of better effect
>>>     and impact.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     What I wanted to say using quotes from an array of observers or
>>>     participants is that the initiative has more than a troubling set of
>>>     definitions, expectations and leading to an overall confusion. It
>>>     looks
>>>     more or less like "un chèque en blanc" to illegitimate grouping of a
>>>     wealthy elite (the three players of NMI have deep pockets, and
>>>     friends
>>>     with deeper pockets). I am not even trying to clarify the obvious
>>>     tactics behind all their gesture. I had an intermezzo as a consultant
>>>     for 10 years in my life, and can more than easily read the partition
>>>     behind all of that smoking screen. In the army, you always call some
>>>     troopers from the "génie" when you need a screen of smoke to cross a
>>>     street, a bridge or a simple line. No, let's stay on what is at stake
>>>     such as
>>>
>>>     - why part of civil society in Busan accepted the fact that the US
>>>     refused to discuss mass surveillance?
>>>
>>>     - why is the IGF not the best bet for civil society to keep maturing
>>>     and growing?
>>>
>>>     - why is encryption, I know EFF is working hard on this topic,
>>>     insufficiently at the center of the IG debate? Isn't encryption
>>>     part of
>>>     the mass surveillance issue? So then why to please the US, in Sao
>>>     Paulo, then in Busan by refusing to really go after it? Mass
>>>     surveillance has nothing to do with IG they told us.
>>>
>>>     - why civil society not more vocal on the Google Tour against the EU
>>>     decision to protect personal data, considering rightly in my
>>>     view, that
>>>     search engines are touching at personal data, beyond the simple links
>>>     they assembled in their result pages? This is a real good debate for
>>>     CS.
>>>
>>>     - why not to discuss the IETF and its roles in the IG? More important
>>>     than IANA for example?
>>>
>>>     - why CS seems deprived of imagination and innovative ideas when it
>>>     comes to create a new coordinating body/system, as the ICANN is
>>>     saying
>>>     the political aspects of IG is beyond its mandate? How can we help
>>>     ourselves to have these ideas popping out of CS minds? Looking at all
>>>     the NGOs we are currently ranking, I am positively impressed with
>>>     their
>>>     innovative abilities, much more powerful than classical corps. They
>>>     also create more "values".
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     I am not naive, and have probably a few answers in mind.
>>>     Nevertheless,
>>>     CS should really act differently. The NMI story is relevant of the
>>>     weakness that anyone can perceive among CS, and this is not to blame
>>>     JNC or anyone else. A leadership crisis wrote someone today.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Remember the preparation of Net Mundial? Did the ICANN handle CS in a
>>>     satisfactory fashion? Haven't we seen the trailer? We had to twist
>>>     their arm every minute to get info, to get principles, to simply
>>>     get it
>>>     not that bad. Why is it so difficult for the 'nice guys" not to go
>>>     directly after the right ideas, proposals and suggestions when
>>>     launching an open, honest, transparent debate? Instead they keep
>>>     creating distrust with their committees, high level panel, advisory
>>>     boards... Trust is critical. "Please energize me! should we all
>>>     cry. We
>>>     are all losing. Terrifying, I would say.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     So why don't you and other leaders of CS decide to meet, have a
>>>     debate
>>>     and launch a true CS initiative, calling governments, citizens and
>>>     corporations to join in a effort to rebalance the growing
>>>     asymmetry we
>>>     live in since the mid-nineties? In the face of History, and our
>>>     fellow
>>>     citizens, we are failing, because CS is not united. To do that you do
>>>     not need any WEF. You only need to trust, share, and confront the
>>>     realities that are taking away our rights. This is what should be
>>>     done,
>>>     now, instead of wasting our time and little money to debate about the
>>>     comfortable sofas of the WEF.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Somehow BB is a failure, as it has not delivered to its own mandate.
>>>     JNC is not getting more isolated, it is growing and reaching more and
>>>     more people. We should not care about that. We should care about
>>>     having
>>>     a collective action that would oblige governments, corps and the
>>>     current mandarins to take more progressive steps. Multistakeholderism
>>>     when it comes to convene and consult many participants is certainly
>>>     nice. This has often been done, long before we began to put in our
>>>     mouth the MS narrative. When it comes to make decisions at least
>>>     on the
>>>     public policy level, MS simply doesn't work. If the coders had to go
>>>     through MS to make decision, they would have simply gone nowhere.
>>>     Only
>>>     a few guys fixing better than other few guys technical issues doesn't
>>>     equate a political model. It could work, but then it would lead
>>>     to some
>>>     social disaster, a disruption that would unleash violence.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     JNC has no monopole of ethics, but because we are poor enough,
>>>     our bias
>>>     is somehow limited. We are paid by no government, no corporation, no
>>>     barons. We are simple citizens, with a profound democratic
>>>     concern (to
>>>     avoid another asymmetric wars), and we are ready to go into
>>>     rationales
>>>     as long as we are not characterized as psychotics or lunatics.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     There is no way that we can really have a strong impact as civil
>>>     society participants if we do not go after unity. And we all
>>>     agree that
>>>     we should pay more respect to each others, as long as we do not have
>>>     hidden agenda, and gentle philanthropes putting their money in the
>>>     debate. That would be fair.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         JC
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         Le 18 nov. 2014 à 17:55, Jeremy Malcolm a écrit :
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Nov 18, 2014, at 1:49 AM, Jean-Christophe NOTHIAS I The Global
>>>     Journal <jc.nothias at theglobaljournal.net
>>>     <mailto:jc.nothias at theglobaljournal.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     I leave to Norbert co-convenor at JNC to answer your first email.
>>>     On a
>>>     personal note, I would appreciate you to elaborate about the "dumping
>>>     on civil society colleagues" you are referring to,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Within the next few days I’m going to write a separate blog post
>>>     about
>>>     this at igfwatch.org <http://igfwatch.org>, because JNC’s
>>>     pathologies are off-topic for this
>>>     list.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     The WEF/ICANN/CGIbr project is not in lack of clarity. If I do listen
>>>     to non JNC members:
>>>
>>>     - Wall Street Journal reporter: "The NetMundial wants to spread
>>>     Internet Governance more evenly across the developing world".
>>>     (Ask Drew
>>>     Fitzgerald about the source for that understanding of what is the WIB
>>>     Initiative)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         Which is roughly opposite to what JNC is saying.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     - McCarthy at The Register: "ISOC has blasted efforts from some
>>>     quarters to create a "UN Security Council”
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         A fatuous analogy, do you take it at face value?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     - Eileen Donahoe, ... Virgilio Almeida, ... Richard Samans, ... Fadi
>>>     Chehadé: ...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     None of these statements support the characterisation of the
>>>     Initiative
>>>     as in your letter as “being ’the’ mechanism for global [Internet]
>>>     governance”.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Based on these official and public statement, I can only read JNC
>>>     statement as an interesting analysis and agree with JNC reluctance to
>>>     participate or endorse such following-up (hijacking might be to
>>>     blunt)
>>>     of the NetMundial meeting. Nor the WEF, ICANN, or CGIbr are owners of
>>>     what was stated ultimately in Sao Paulo, with all due reserves by
>>>     different participants.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     I’ve also said, and maintain, that I regard the NETmundial Initiative
>>>     (particularly the naming thereof) to be a hijacking of the NETmundial
>>>     meeting. On this much we agree.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     So instead of trying to grab a comfortable seat in that convoy ...
>>>     should for once, Civil Society ... acknowledges the serious concerns
>>>     seen in the making of, and in the diverse objectives presented by the
>>>     WEF, ICANN and CGIbr.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Ian has taking a more neutral position, but for my part personally I
>>>     certainly have
>>>     (http://igfwatch.org/discussion-board/netmundial-initiative-takes-a-top-down-approach-to-implementing-the-netmundial-principles).
>>>     What prompted my last email was not that JNC opposes the NETmundial
>>>     Initiative, but that it has to do this by impugning the motives of
>>>     other civil society groups and falsely attributing them with their
>>>     endorsement of the Initiative.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Also for the avoidance of doubt, nobody else endorsed my rant
>>>     which was
>>>     sent in a personal capacity (though I have subsequently received, off
>>>     list, two emails in support, as well as one against).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      By the way, could you explain us (subscribers of the BestBits list):
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     I do not have time to respond to the rest of your mail right now
>>>     because I am speaking at a conference today and will be boarding a
>>>     flight a few hours later.  But I write this brief response just
>>>     because
>>>     you suggested in most recent mail that I was ignoring you - I’m not.
>>>     Anyway, others can respond to the balance of your questions
>>>     rather than
>>>     me monopolising the conversation.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         --
>>>
>>>         Jeremy Malcolm
>>>
>>>         Senior Global Policy Analyst
>>>
>>>         Electronic Frontier Foundation
>>>
>>>     https://eff.org
>>>     jmalcolm at eff.org <mailto:jmalcolm at eff.org>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
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