Hello Tor,
I took the freedom to create a project under the Community Team wiki which is an attempt to create a rapid response program against censorship events.
In the past months we did a little bit of that, by tweeting in PT to people in Brazil teaching them to use Tor when Brazuka judge blocked Whatsapp, we tweeted reaching out to Uganda folks also in an attempt to get as many people to know about Tor as possible when the government was blocking social media during the elections, and most recently we tweeted in TR when the government blocked Social Media during the coup event last month.
One might say: 'well if social media is blocked why you using to teach people how to circumvent the blockade?'. What works here is the 'mouth to mouth' outreach, while many in the country where the censorship event might not be able to access social media, relatives and friends abroad can still do it and they are in communication with those inside the country. As an immigrant living abroad I can tell you that *it is a thing* I for instance called my family and told them to use orbot so we could still talk with Whatsapp while the blockade was happening.
Of course we could do more and spread the word via email lists and other venues and communication channels. We also could be more prepared and have messages already translated in multiple languages so it's easier to have something in the right language for the population we want to reach.
We can try to document these events and our actions to respond to it as well e.g. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tracking-impact-whatsapp-blockage-tor
There is many things we could be building here to have such a program in place!
I started this wiki: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/CommunityTeam/Projec...
Just to show how we can start organizing this things -- those phrases there are just examples, not the real thing right now.
I was wondering if the Community Team and others would be into this idea and would like to help improve that page.
Maybe we can even do it during the hacking day of the dev meeting!
What y'all think of that? Cheers,
Isabela
isabela:
Of course we could do more and spread the word via email lists and other venues and communication channels. We also could be more prepared and have messages already translated in multiple languages so it's easier to have something in the right language for the population we want to reach.
I've also emailed press releases to local and international media for the last two rapid response events and reached out to reporters on Twitter. I posted the information to several human rights email lists. I Tweeted and Facebooked in English and the local language (with lots of help!)--there were large numbers of retweets. For Turkey, I also contacted the Amnesty and Human Rights Watch people on the ground there.
I love the idea of having messages pre-translated and ready to go!
If we develop a visible brand for this, it will help spread the word also.
Thanks, Isabela,
Katie
Please add these lists to the wiki - dont need to be the full address if you don't want to, just the name of it. The goal is to have a check list so we can make sure we don't forget anything when it happens.
Thanks! Isabela
On 08/19/2016 12:04 PM, Kate wrote:
isabela:
Of course we could do more and spread the word via email lists and other venues and communication channels. We also could be more prepared and have messages already translated in multiple languages so it's easier to have something in the right language for the population we want to reach.
I've also emailed press releases to local and international media for the last two rapid response events and reached out to reporters on Twitter. I posted the information to several human rights email lists. I Tweeted and Facebooked in English and the local language (with lots of help!)--there were large numbers of retweets. For Turkey, I also contacted the Amnesty and Human Rights Watch people on the ground there.
I love the idea of having messages pre-translated and ready to go!
If we develop a visible brand for this, it will help spread the word also.
Thanks, Isabela,
Katie
Hi Isa,
isabela:
I was wondering if the Community Team and others would be into this idea and would like to help improve that page.
I love this idea! Carolin has already added it to the agenda for our meeting Wednesday. Anyone on this list who isn't already on the Community Team can join us on Wednesday, 24 August at 1800 UTC in #tor-project to discuss the next steps.
Maybe we can even do it during the hacking day of the dev meeting!
I'll be there and I'd love to work on this.
Thanks again for getting the conversation started!
Alison
great! I might stick around for the meeting too :)
On 08/22/2016 09:25 AM, Alison wrote:
Hi Isa,
isabela:
I was wondering if the Community Team and others would be into this idea and would like to help improve that page.
I love this idea! Carolin has already added it to the agenda for our meeting Wednesday. Anyone on this list who isn't already on the Community Team can join us on Wednesday, 24 August at 1800 UTC in #tor-project to discuss the next steps.
Maybe we can even do it during the hacking day of the dev meeting!
I'll be there and I'd love to work on this.
Thanks again for getting the conversation started!
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