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Re: [hrpc] HRPC recharter

Eliot Lear <lear@lear.ch> Tue, 10 January 2023 17:45 UTC

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Hi Farzaneh,

On 10.01.23 18:24, farzaneh badii wrote:
> Most times, this practice of balancing rights favors the powerful who 
> can quash other people's rights and abuse their power. We can start 
> from debunking some narratives that, for example security and privacy 
> are always conflicting (they are sometimes but sometimes they are not 
> and they are quite aligned).

For some value of "security".  Schneier is pretty good at pointing out 
just how nebulous the term really is.

>
> And what do you mean by technical solutions? Technical solutions that 
> address the tradeoffs between rights? Am I getting this right? If so, 
> then I totally disagree, I think you cannot overcome the trade-off 
> with technical solutions. I don't want to misframe this but are 
> backdoors technical solutions?

It depends on the goal, no?  Various LI communities would and have 
argued, “Yes”, as is reflected in various legislative frameworks that 
some of us don't like.

> I prefer that policymakers actually understand the technical 
> limitations and the effect of their policies on the Internet and 
> values they want to uphold.

Couldn't agree more.  The Evil Bit is a very good concept to bring 
across to them, for instance.

Eliot

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