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

[Izumi AIZU]

Dear all, many thanks for all good comments and suggestions so far. We like
to hear a little more before closing this.

Izumi


2012年1月16日月曜日 parminder parminder at itforchange.net:
> SInce IGC website is not one much visited even by our members, the strike
should include activity on the IGC list....
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> (Though frankly, on principle, I believe that US's 'global' excesses of
the SOPA kind must be countered in more globally democratic ways than just
appealing to the global sensitivity of the US government, which even if it
does exist, and gets exercised in the present case, is merely instrumental
with regard to US interests.)
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> parminder
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> On Monday 16 January 2012 03:31 PM, Jean-Louis FULLSACK wrote:
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> Thanks Sivasubramanian for your suggestion. I fully support it because
censorship is not "negociable" for a CS org.
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> Jean-Louis Fullsack
> CSPTT-France
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>> 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]
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> Dear Sala,
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> 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...."
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> And with a more elaborate message than found in the strike website.
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> We could urge other civil society organizations, and our members to do
the same.
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> Sivasubramanian M
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> http://isocindiachennai.org
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> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear All,
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> 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.
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> Let us have your thoughts.
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> Izumi and Sala
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> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 4:23 AM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>
wrote:
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Donny Shaw <info at fightforthefuture.org>
>> Date: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:34 PM
>> Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Web Goes on Strike!
>> To:
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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.
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>> Some of the biggest sites in the world are participating: Reddit,
Mozilla. And some others may join (e.g

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