[governance] Should the IGC website go on strike against censorship on Jan 18? [URGENT]

[Jean-Louis FULLSACK]

Thanks Sivasubramanian for your suggestion. I fully support it because censorship is not "negociable" for a CS org.

Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSPTT-France 




> Message du 16/01/12 03:02
> De : "Sivasubramanian M" 
> A : governance at lists.cpsr.org, "Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro" 
> Copie à : "michael gurstein" 
> Objet : Re: [governance] Should the IGC website go on strike against censorship on Jan 18? [URGENT]
> 
> Dear Sala,
> 
> Yes, IGC web could go on strike. (But not "down")  The site could be up, with a banner replacing the front-page, "today we are in strike together with...."  
> And with a more elaborate message than found in the strike website. 
> We could urge other civil society organizations, and our members to do the same. 
> 
Sivasubramanian M http://isocindiachennai.org
> 
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro  wrote:
> Dear All,
> Some of you may recall from Michael Gurstein's email that there is a website strike to protest against censorship on January 18, 2012. After discussions with Izumi, we would like to hold consultations for 24 hours from 8:30am UTC +12 of 16th January 2012 and we will use these consultations as a basis for considering whether or not we participate. 
> Let us have your thoughts. 
> Izumi and Sala
> 
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 4:23 AM, michael gurstein  wrote:
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> From: Donny Shaw 
> Date: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:34 PM
> Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Web Goes on Strike!
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> > On Jan. 18th there is going to be an all-out strike on the internet. Websites across the internet are going dark in protest of the internet censorship bills in Congress, SOPA and PIPA.
> Some of the biggest sites in the world are participating: Reddit, Mozilla. And some others may join (e.g. a leading micro-blogging platform and a popular collaboratively-written encyclopedia), but they need a nudge. If we can get them to join this will be EPIC.
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