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Securely and privately verifiable protests
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Add right to protest for motivation #17

Closed dbosk closed 5 years ago

dbosk commented 7 years ago

There is an implied right to protest, through the right to freedom of assembly, the right to freedom of association, and the right to freedom of speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_protest

dbosk commented 6 years ago 
\blockcquote{BBConVenezuelaProtestBan}{%
  Venezuela is banning protests that could "disturb or affect" Sunday's 
  controversial election for a new constituent assembly.
}
This would arguably violate the human right of peaceful protest.
So protesters should be able to do it anyway.
The fact that
\blockcquote{BBConVenezuelaProtestBan}{%
  \textins*{p}rison terms of between five and 10 years could be imposed on those 
  contravening the ban
}
motivates further our privacy properties.
sbuc commented 5 years ago

Do we still need this? Arguably we do not improve the privacy of physical protests. And do we need to strengthen the claim that we do need to be privacy-preserving? My opinion now is that we don't need this but if anyone has time to add it, it doesn't hurt to exemplify the consequences of worsening privacy. I'm not sure what the Venezuela example has to do with the right to protest and in turn how that affects crocus.

dbosk commented 5 years ago

I don't think this will help us at the moment.