commit ac87e5ceb02360aa530d3dcab52b9bc84b134fee
parent c4ba3f16b5746f3c14e890df6ad68398c55c00d0
Author: Michiel Leenaars <michiel.ml@nlnet.nl>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 22:08:49 +0100
Slight rewording of ethic, move software part to end
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diff --git a/doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/ethic.tex b/doc/usenix-security-2025/paper/ethic.tex
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\section*{Ethics considerations and compliance with the open science policy}
-This project is a free and open source software project. The program presented in this project is available under GNU V3.0 license in the repository git.taler.net/donau.git . Reviewers, and later readers, will be able to download, compile and install the software as they wish.
+Ethical considerations were at the root of this project. At their essence, donations are ethical acts outsourcing a moral drive for change to a third party that (promises to) act on them in a manner that is compatible with the value system of a donor. Current systems oblige people making donations to charities to go on record and report to their government the donations made, explicitly linking them to the causes and institution(s) supported. This has a self-censoring or chilling effect due to fear for future potential repercussions in complex and volatile political climates: information may linger on inside the bureaucratic system, and later cause unforeseeable harm. Such concerns about real-world ramifications on personal choices in the ethical domain cause stress to donors, and the current approach encroaches on the private sphere of those who do not wish it to be known who they support. As identified in this paper, support for certain organizations and their linked causes can not just lead to stigmatisation but to phyical harassement and far worse.
-Ethical considerations were at the root of this project. At their essence, donations are ethical acts outsourcing a moral drive for change to professionals that (promise to) act on them in a manner that is compatible with the value system of a donor. Current systems oblige people making donations to charities to go on record and report to their government the donations made, explicitly linking them to the causes and institution(s) supported. This has a self-censoring or chilling effect due to fear for future potential repercussions in complex and volatile political climates: information may linger on inside the bureaucratic system, and later cause unknown harm. Such concerns about real-world ramifications on personal choices in the ethical domain cause stress to donors, and the current approach encroaches on the private sphere of those who do not wish it to be known who they support. As identified in this paper, support for certain organizations and their linked causes can not just lead to stigmatisation but to phyical harassement and far worse.
+The current mechanisms also has discriminatory aspects. It places an unfair bureaucratic cost on spending an equivalent cumulative amount to philanthropy via supporting smaller causes - denying intersectional interests donors may have, and disadvantaging smaller, early stage and more lean public causes. The latter notably includes "niche" causes linked to (combinations of) cultural, sexual, ethnic, religious and social minorities. Smaller causes often do not have the capacity to offer support for achieving fiscal compensation to their donors, reprieving their (latent) donor constituencies of the amplifying effects of such compensation and making them less attractive (and thus relatively less likely) to be supported.
-The current mechanisms place an unfair bureaucratic cost on spending an equivalent cumulative amount to philanthropy via supporting smaller causes - denying intersectional interests donors may have, and disadvantaging smaller, early stage and more lean public causes. The latter notably includes "niche" causes linked to (combinations of) cultural, sexual, ethnic, religious and social minorities. Smaller causes often do not have the capacity to offer support for achieving fiscal compensation to their donors, reprieving their (latent) donor constituencies of the amplifying effects of such compensation and making them less likely to be supported.
+The aim of this project is to simplify donating for all and offer non-discrimatory access to tax benefits and greater protection of privacy, leading to greater tax justice and a philanthropic climate. We want to reverse the situation where people prefer not to claim the tax reduction to which they are entitled in order to protect themselves.
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+The associated software does not place any ethical dillema's upon the users. It is delivered as free and open source software, available under GNU V3.0 license in the repository git.taler.net/donau.git . Anyone is able to download, compile, install, modify and redistribute the software as they wish conditional to respecting this license.
-The aim of this project is to simplify donating for all and offer non-discrimatory access to tax benefits and greater protection of privacy, leading to greater tax justice and a philanthropic climate. We want to reverse the situation where people prefer not to claim the tax reduction to which they are entitled in order to protect their privacy.
