moderation

[Noah Swartz]

can we solve this problem by just moderating subscriptions?

[Kyle McDonald]

sorry. i should have fixed this a few months ago when we got the first few bits of spam, but i didn't. i sincerely apologize.

i think the best approach is to leave subscriptions open, but moderate the first post.

i just banned the most recent batch of spammers:

glha...@gmail.com

dr.bah...@gmail.com

fanfen...@gmail.com

fandal...@gmail.com

and i removed their emails from the group archive.

i also added three people who offered their help as owners of the group:

- ali sajjadi

- josh noble

- noah swartz

when a new user posts, these three people (and me) will get an email asking to moderate the post. hopefully with us watching, there won't be too long a delay for legitimate messages.

alternatively, if anyone has done this before and knows that moderating new users works better than moderating new posts, let me know and i can switch it. right now there are 1-2 new users per month.

thanks for your patience. and thanks ali, josh, and noah for your help!

kyle  

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Noah Swartz <swar...@gmail.com> wrote:

can we solve this problem by just moderating subscriptions?

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[Tim Schwartz]

Wait I think we now need to find out who in the group was the one making the fake accounts and spamming everyone. Witchhunt! 

Thx moderators for dealing with this. 

-tim

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Thank you for the moderation and the note! It must be a bit time consuming to manage this. Thx!!!

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[Julian Oliver]

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/07/apple-removes-vpn-apps-chinese-app-store-government-orders/
https://twitter.com/joshuawongcf/status/891864772177784832

Disgraceful act of cowardice on part of Tim Cook. Encryption actually does save
lives in China. You have to draw the line somewhere.

Can only guess which country's next.

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[Noah Swartz]

EFF is going to write something about this I think

lmk if any of you have especially nuanced opinions that we should share

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[Kira Simon-Kennedy]

the lawyers behind http://www.chinalawblog.com/ are great, might want to reach out to them on the nuances of the exact laws China is using to restrict VPNs (because it varies by city/region: Chongqing imposed fines in March, Beijing is saying the ban starts in February...)

other reads:

SCMP (which is owned by Alibaba) http://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2104056/beijing-defends-crackdown-vpns-saying-there-are-alternatives

Golden Frog's response: https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/apple-removes-vyprvpn-major-vpn-apps-china-app-store

and Russia following suit https://qz.com/1041927/after-chinas-crackdown-now-russia-is-banning-vpns-too/

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