Re: [Add] [EXTERNAL] Re: draft-grover-add-policy-detection-00

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

On 17/07/2019 22:54, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> Also, this idea that the Internet will export democracy by providing "escape to 
> a free web for oppressed peoples" is... so 90's. In most countries that have 
> been mentioned as examples of dictatorships throughout this discussion, most 
> people are actually quite happy about their regime and often even happy not to 
> live in a Western democracy (though that's partly because of propaganda, but 
> often it is also because of different cultural values). It takes much more to 
> subvert an authoritarian system than the ability to connect to some websites. 
> It's still worth providing people in these countries with additional 
> protections, but the depiction of a sad, oppressed world that is just waiting 
> for DoH to bloom into democracy is a bit too much :-)

I don't think I've seen such a spectacularly off-topic
(frankly inappropriate) strawman proposed in many a year.
That's just not an argument for an IETF list IMO.

S.