[GNU/consensus] This Is (NOT) The War Room

[hellekin]

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"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room! What is
going on here? I demand an explanation." -- President Muffley, in Dr.
Strangelove

Interestingly, the conversation we're having on the GNU consensus and
the SocialSwarm mailing lists illustrate a critical point of our
struggle for privacy on the Internet: that the technology is secondary
to politics.

When politics does the right thing, then technology can apply; when
politics goes wrong, whatever the technology, politics will try and
mussel it.

The workshop at 30C3 is--in my remote understanding--mostly about
raising a common technical front for most-private-possible
implementations, to short-circuit politics gone wrong.  There is an
emergency on that front, as politics is way off the mark regarding how
user's privacy is constantly violated in electronic communications.
So we need not only to re-establish political control, but also
provide technically sound counterparts to the will-to-watch-and-listen
that all the politicians without exception have been showing.

I wish there was a bit more discernment in the reactions of all
parties involved regarding the objectives of our efforts.  This lack
of dialogue is counter-productive and no, I'm not interested in whose
fault is it.  We're not kids.  Just pull yourselves together and stop
whining.  What is it you want to achieve?

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hk
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