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Show HN: Yupno – No-login RSVP tool with REST API and webhooks(yupno.io)
5 points by a_diplomat 9mo ago|1 comments
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by a_diplomat 4y ago
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by a_diplomat 4y ago
This seems more directed towards parts of Silicon Valley than the rest of the world. The EU recognized that technology = politics long ago, and has been in a race with China on defining global norms. The "GDPR effect" will be seen
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by a_diplomat 4y ago
I was stationed in Rwanda for several years, and visited your operations centers several times. Truly awesome stuff, that's also helped Rwanda in a bigger way, by giving the country well-deserved recognition for its propensity towards
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by a_diplomat 5y ago
We could vote against another proposal, but opening up the framework of human rights for renegotiation would be a substantial thing to do, and would set a precedent. Not working for the US or the UK.
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by a_diplomat 5y ago
Legitimizing their own models of governance, both internationally and domestically, would be their main driver in multilateral settings. In some cases, such as the ITU, it could also be about getting technical norms approved that mirror the
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by a_diplomat 5y ago
There are horizontal issues to every resolution, and every resolution is written in a context. If you open up for environmental crimes, then some country will want to open up for "illegal speech" directed towards the state.
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by a_diplomat 5y ago
Yup. And also, authoritarian government uses <insert reason> to open up the framework for negotiation and weaken existing norms.
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by a_diplomat 5y ago
It wouldn't be so much about the rights themselves being authoritarian, but that opening up the framework for renegotiation would weaken existing norms. You could, for instance, almost be certain that some countries would like to put m
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by a_diplomat 5y ago
It doesn't mean that they can never be established, it just means that in the current international political climate, there is very little interest from democratic states to open it up, since the consequences could be so vast. If the
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by a_diplomat 5y ago
Hi. Diplomat working with UN issues here. The issue at hand here is not this resolution in itself. It's the fact that opening up human rights to "new" rights sets a precedent. And that precedent will be used by other countrie
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by a_diplomat 6y ago
It's also the case that there are a lot more people living in undemocratic countries than in democratic ones. I understand the need to have multiple solutions to this problem, but this can never become an alternative for platforms taki
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by a_diplomat 6y ago
In other words, they want people to do fact checking for free for them.
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by a_diplomat 6y ago
Actually no, it's the opposite. It's governments regulating companies, and thereby taking responsibility. Going a step further would make governments actively intervene in day-to-day-operations.
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by a_diplomat 7y ago
This is just not correct. Governments are acting on this throughout the world. Don't conflate governments with politicians. For well-functioning states, state agencies are dealing with this through well-established protocols that don&#
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by a_diplomat 7y ago
https://www.instagram.com/p/B8RSvShhguN/
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29k – Seek Happiness Find Meaning(29k.org)
1 points by a_diplomat 7y ago|2 comments
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by a_diplomat 7y ago
sure thing, send me a dm!
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by a_diplomat 7y ago
Totally understand. I have to say that watching the drones getting captured when landing is one of the most futuristic things I've seen. You guys have done some great things in Rwanda - I lived there over the past 4 years, so I have fi
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by a_diplomat 7y ago
There are several negotiations ongoing in various committees of the UN, where the issues that surface in the "real world" are negotiated: information warfare (such as election interference), responsibility for information across b
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by a_diplomat 7y ago
I've been to your airfield in Rwanda! It's such a great company.
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by a_diplomat 7y ago
I'm a diplomat working on international norms for cyber and information warfare. I'm trying to get countries to agree on how to use and not use their capabilities, the influence on global democracy, the connection to armed conflic
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by a_diplomat 9y ago
Freedom of speech is, as you can read in the link I provided, one of several rights, not the only right.
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by a_diplomat 9y ago
http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
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by a_diplomat 9y ago
1) That would be a question for US courts, as all those companies are based in the us. 2) Yes. 3) Yes.
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by a_diplomat 9y ago
Also, the original resolution was passed in 2012 under the document name A/HRC/RES/20/8. It is biannualised and reintroduced every two years in the Human Rights Council. The original resolution is more crisp and concise.
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by a_diplomat 9y ago
I negotiated this resolution on behalf of a UN government. The title is very misleading. The resolution states that human rights are applicable on the internet, not that access to the internet is a human right.