[pp.int.general] Really now?

[Eduardo Robles Elvira]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Boris Turovskiy <tourovski at gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems that the issue finally begins to be taken seriously. Has only
> taken, like, 3 years. For a privacy-minded movement like ours, that's just
> great!^^

I don't think this is only a privacy issue. It's more than that, it's
about independence. If the email accounts or mailing lists depend on
the all powerful google, then it doesn't mean only they have "premium"
access to these accounts - it also means google can take those mailing
lists and email accounts away whenever they want.

I believe that a big part of being a pirate is independence: in
thought, in action, in resources, in law. That's why we like
bittorrent, that's why we need to create and support our own
alternative media. That's why initiatives like guifi.net [0] are
important. That's why pirates worry about things like
single-point-of-failure or the bus-factor. And Google is just that,
it's the main representative of the "server in the middle" problem
[1]. If anything, we represent the "no thanks, I'm running our own
boat". It's not easy, mind you. But taking responsability of our own
actions is a big part of a healthy democracy, I think this is what
people see (or should see) in our movement.

Of course, we are all criticising current status of
pp-international.net, but what we need is less talk and more action.
Who is going to setup and maintain a pp mail server for the time
being?

Regards,
Eduardo
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[0] http://guifi.net/en
[1] http://edulix.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/the-server-in-the-middle-problem-and-solution/