commit 8b5bf2ed225b0ecc7df49d90bf36a328e6a306d9
parent af4a36faecd7037906888f1b982426847cd7d1e7
Author: Jonathan <ondesmartenot@riseup.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 22:59:29 +0800
Comment out paragraph about ALEC
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1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/intro.tex b/doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/intro.tex
@@ -14,17 +14,24 @@ away to a recognized, independently administered good cause is not
income that will be used for private consumption. So, conceptually,
it deserves a different tax treatment.
-Donations can serve many causes, but quite often they are an obvious expression
-of the human right towards the freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
-Unencumbered financial contributions to public benefit organisations as a means
-of collective action exhibits significant conceptual overlap with often
-strongly protected civil liberties like freedom of speech and freedom to
-assemble. The American Legislative Exchange Council, the largest voluntary
-membership organization of state legislators in the USA, adopted a model
-resolution in 2016 \cite{ALEC2016} in support of nonprofit donor privacy,
-stating that "nonprofit organizations are a primary mechanism by which groups
-of people assemble to practice free speech and express their opinions on
-political and nonpolitical subjects".
+%% JL: I strongly suggest completely removing this paragraph. I'm not sure we
+%% need to be so abstractly idealistic, and even if we do, the citation is
+%% ideologically dissonant with the text that precedes it. ALEC is a right-wing
+%% pro-corporation model legislation factory whose goal is to eviscerate US
+%% civil liberties, labor rights, environmental regulation, etc. It actively
+%% fights against the civil rights mentioned just before it.
+
+% Donations can serve many causes, but quite often they are an obvious expression
+% of the human right towards the freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
+% Unencumbered financial contributions to public benefit organisations as a means
+% of collective action exhibits significant conceptual overlap with often
+% strongly protected civil liberties like freedom of speech and freedom to
+% assemble. The American Legislative Exchange Council, the largest voluntary
+% membership organization of state legislators in the USA, adopted a model
+% resolution in 2016 \cite{ALEC2016} in support of nonprofit donor privacy,
+% stating that "nonprofit organizations are a primary mechanism by which groups
+% of people assemble to practice free speech and express their opinions on
+% political and nonpolitical subjects".
Individual spending quickly becomes very intimate and personal, as even
aggregate spending habits can reveal a great deal about people through
