[Support-team] warrant canaries controversy?

[Alfredo Lopez]

I would *strongly* advise against any retraction at this point. That
would be very very premature, potentially confusing and very potentially
damaging.

The statement Mallory is citing does not negate the issuance of a NSL.
At all. It merely assures people Rise Up is not "pulling the plug".

Their tweets are very cryptic. I think something is wrong. Otherwise,
they would have *said* "We did not receive a National Security Letter".

Or, if that's not true, they'll tell us. In reality, there's no real
harm done in this incident. Not really.

But in the meantime, remember that if they did receive a letter and you
tell people they didn't, you are betraying your movement (I'm talking
about the Left of the United States, btw).

*The* priority of a movement organization that is under attack is to let
the rest of the movement know the attack is happening. For a bunch of
reasons we all know. *The* priority.

Abrazos,

Alfredo



On 11/25/2016 03:12 AM, Mallory Knodel wrote:
> Whew: https://twitter.com/riseupnet/status/801902121150869504
> 
> I think retractions of any statements that folks have made that played
> into the hype are important to make now. Trust is precarious and we
> can't be careless with it.
> 
> -Mallory
> 
> On 23/11/16 08:26 AM, James Sheldon wrote:
>> There is apparently a controversy about a rather prominent
>> left-anarchist hosting service's warrant canary not being updated, and
>> although it seems like most of the people commenting it are merely
>> indulging in conspiracy theory and have no actual evidence backing up
>> any of their claims ... it makes me wonder what the implications of
>> this sort of thing would be for mayfirst and what we would do if we
>> were faced with a similar situation.  Hopefully we have a better plan
>> in place than just "tweet cryptic messages" and make people try to
>> read between the lines... which seems to be what that particular host
>> is doing.   Anyways, I was hoping that someone might be able to
>> contextualize what's going on, so that I am not relying on rather
>> unreliable social media to understand what this sort of situation
>> might mean.
>>
>> James
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Alfredo López
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May First/People Link
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