Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-26 Thread William Kane
Also, more information would be nice - just some "Please shut down all of your relays, because I / they have a problem with X" isn't very descriptive. Just did some own research: "The group recently reappointed the controversial developer and activist to its board; he had previously departed in t

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-26 Thread Georg Koppen
George: > On 3/26/21 12:02 PM, Roman Mamedov wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 11:26:16 -0400 >> Chris Dagdigian wrote: >> >>> telling new female  undergrads and grad students to ensure that they >>> never, >>> ever, were placed in a room alone with him. >> >> It is a bad idea to stay alone in a room

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-26 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 09:02:02PM +0500, Roman Mamedov wrote: :On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 11:26:16 -0400 :Chris Dagdigian wrote: : :> telling new female undergrads and grad students to ensure that they never, :> ever, were placed in a room alone with him. : :It is a bad idea to stay alone in a room wit

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-26 Thread George
On 3/26/21 12:02 PM, Roman Mamedov wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 11:26:16 -0400 Chris Dagdigian wrote: telling new female undergrads and grad students to ensure that they never, ever, were placed in a room alone with him. It is a bad idea to stay alone in a room with a woman these days, regard

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-26 Thread Bauruine
It's about https://rms-open-letter.github.io/ a letter that not only calls for the cancellation of RMS but also "We are calling for the removal of the entire Board of the Free Software Foundation." and "Refuse to contribute to projects related to the FSF and RMS." that is supported by a lot of

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-26 Thread Ben Tasker
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 3:11 PM Roman Mamedov wrote: > > Could be important to note that no harassment allegations were ever aimed > at > RMS himself, he's just being attacked for posting a personal opinion about > unrelated events. > > This is untrue, it's even covered in the open letter https:

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-26 Thread Cristiano Kubiaki Gomes
Everything is political, the Freedom of speech is political. The Freedom of speech doesn't give someone the right to harm someone. RMS has his past and what he has done for the Open Source community will always be remembered, but it does not mean that we should accept his bad behavior. - Kubiaki

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-26 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 11:26:16 -0400 Chris Dagdigian wrote: > telling new female undergrads and grad students to ensure that they never, > ever, were placed in a room alone with him. It is a bad idea to stay alone in a room with a woman these days, regardless :) Rumours or accusations of harassme

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-26 Thread Random Tor Node Operator
I believe to have observed a worrying pattern lately. A small number of people select a person for a perceived or actual wrongdoing and do their best at destroying their target's lives though any and all means available. Including by exerting pressure on their target's workplace to throw the target

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-26 Thread Chris Dagdigian
Roman Mamedov wrote on 3/26/21 11:10 AM: Could be important to note that no harassment allegations were ever aimed at RMS himself, he's just being attacked for posting a personal opinion about unrelated events. The mattress on the floor of his MIT office and the 30 year history of him hitting

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-26 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 2:49 PM William Kane wrote: > > Also, more information would be nice - just some "Please shut down all > of your relays, because I / they have a problem with X" isn't very > descriptive. > > Just did some own research: > > "The group recently reappointed the controversial d

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-26 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:44:54 + William Kane wrote: > "The group recently reappointed the controversial developer and > activist to its board; he had previously departed in the wake of > sexual-harassment allegations and comments he made about the Jeffrey > Epstein case that many found repelle

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-26 Thread Casper
Pavel Polyakov a écrit : > > I hope the rest of you out there, who depend every day on GNU project > > code which would not exist without RMS's project, might consider > > joining me. > > I also regret that the Tor Project expressed support for those that > have purposefully twisted RMS' statement

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-25 Thread Pavel Polyakov
> I hope the rest of you out there, who depend every day on GNU project > code which would not exist without RMS's project, might consider > joining me. I also regret that the Tor Project expressed support for those that have purposefully twisted RMS' statements and launched this campaign against

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-25 Thread William Kane
>So while I'd share your belief that Tor project should stay out of this, or >better yet, support >RMS, shutting down nodes seems like taking out your >punishment on the innocent ones. This, we already have only a handful of nodes, and even fewer exit nodes, please don't make the situation worse

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-25 Thread Chris Dagdigian
I've already tripled the bandwidth and burst settings on my US exit relay that I've been running for many years in honor of the poutrage flounces we've seen today niftybunny wrote on 3/25/21 3:37 PM: I will spin up 2 relays for every relay this guy and other RMS supporters will shut down. n

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-25 Thread s7r
I'll match that as well. This is no reason to discontinue running a relay if you are a true Tor supporter and privacy / anonymity believer. John Ricketts wrote: I'll match that. On Mar 25, 2021, at 14:37, niftybunny wrote: I will spin up 2 relays for every relay this guy and other RMS s

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-25 Thread John Ricketts
I'll match that. > On Mar 25, 2021, at 14:37, niftybunny > wrote: > > I will spin up 2 relays for every relay this guy and other RMS supporters > will shut down. > > nifty > > >> On 25. Mar 2021, at 20:11, Igor Mitrofanov >> wrote: >> >> I denounce the Tor Project's political activism

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-25 Thread niftybunny
I will spin up 2 relays for every relay this guy and other RMS supporters will shut down. nifty > On 25. Mar 2021, at 20:11, Igor Mitrofanov > wrote: > > I denounce the Tor Project's political activism under the new administration > and this attempt to fuel the cancel culture. > I am signin

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-25 Thread Igor Mitrofanov
I denounce the Tor Project's political activism under the new administration and this attempt to fuel the cancel culture. I am signing the supporting letter for Richard Stallman and pausing my relays. I realize that this is largely symbolic, but so is running Tor relays in the first place. I am not

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-25 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 12:52 PM Jeffrey Cliff wrote: > > I've been running a relay/exit node for many years. Tor user since ~2004. Thank you for running an exit node. You provided a service to the world and likely helped millions of people. > To the extent that my voice means anything at all h

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-25 Thread Cristóbal Palmer
On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 8:52 AM Jeffrey Cliff wrote: > > I hope the rest of you out there [...] might consider joining me. F/LOSS is bigger than any one person, and we should demand a higher standard of ethical behavior from our leaders than the average person. The individual you mention has repe

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-25 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 20:06:48 -0600 Jeffrey Cliff wrote: > I've been running a relay/exit node for many years. Tor user since ~2004. > To the extent that my voice means anything at all here, I would like to > strongly condemn the Tor project joining the attempt to cancel Richard > Stallman. Stal

Re: [tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-25 Thread Georg Koppen
Hello! Jeffrey Cliff: > I've been running a relay/exit node for many years. Tor user since ~2004. > To the extent that my voice means anything at all here, I would like to > strongly condemn the Tor project joining the attempt to cancel Richard > Stallman. Stallman represents software freedom to

[tor-relays] Tor project helping to attempt to cancel Richard Stallman

2021-03-25 Thread Jeffrey Cliff
I've been running a relay/exit node for many years. Tor user since ~2004. To the extent that my voice means anything at all here, I would like to strongly condemn the Tor project joining the attempt to cancel Richard Stallman. Stallman represents software freedom to me generally and as of today I