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by wodenokoto 2 days ago
> Let's Encrypt’s mission is to create a more secure and privacy-respecting web, except for people residing in countries with the most need for a more secure and privacy-respecting web. Sure, that's great.

If complying with the law gets in the way of the mission I’m not sure that counts as a change to the mission.
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Supermancho 2 days ago
> If complying with a law gets in the way of the mission I’m not sure that counts as a change to the mission.

It's already illegal to use in NK, but if it's the US, well it's time to steer the mission around it? Gross.

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wodenokoto 2 days ago
For an American enterprise? Yes, obviously.

Should NRA hand out guns to everyone who can’t get a permit where permits are required? Of course not. If they are against gun permits they have to fight the law, not break it.

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Supermancho 1 day ago
The National Rifle Association (NRA) describes itself as America’s longest-standing civil rights organization.

That is a specific US-internal stance.

There's a list of organizations that started in the US, ultimately having had to work around the US legal system, in pursuit of their missions:

re Planned Parenthood Global, WikiLeaks, International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Center for Reproductive Rights, selected programs of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, et al

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