[Owasp-leaders] Meetup.com goes Deep Politcal

Thu Feb 16 11:16:00 UTC 2017

The #resist movement falls in the category of campaigning against a 
political candidate, that is Donald Trump. Meetup coaches its words, but 
the #resist is very clearly political.  Try Google search on "#resist" 
if you are not familiar with it. 
https://www.google.com/search?q="%23resist"

-- Ralph Durkee

On 02/15/2017 09:11 PM, Andy Lewis wrote:
> Huh. Seems like Meetup may have already gotten the message.
> I agree with Ralph - if Meetup's landing page is #resist or if 
> their actions make it impossible to separate their politics from our 
> activities it's appropriate to find an alternative.
>
> On Wednesday, February 15, 2017, Justin Ferguson 
> <justin.ferguson at owasp.org <mailto:justin.ferguson at owasp.org>> wrote:
>
>     How is this political?
>
>
>
>     On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 7:34 PM Ralph Durkee (OWASP)
>     <Ralph.Durkee at owasp.org> wrote:
>
>         I understand we have a lot of usage of meetup and making quick
>         changes
>         would consume resources we can't spare.  I also understand
>         there is no
>         easy or quick answer. However with such a service we must to
>         link to the
>         meetup website, and the political nature of their home page
>         infringes on
>         OWASP attempt to be politically neutral.  I'm not expecting a
>         quick
>         change that would be disruptive to progress, but we should
>         consider what
>         what their free speech does to politicize our organization, we
>         should
>         talk to them and consider the politicizing effect in
>         evaluating future
>         or expanded usage of meetup solutions.
>
>         -- Ralph Durkee
>
>
>         On 02/14/2017 09:21 PM, Andrew van der Stock wrote:
>         > If OWASP constantly made decisions relating the shifting
>         sands of
>         > lobbying and power and alliances, we'd still get it wrong as
>         many
>         > large firms we rely on pay lobbyists to gain influence in US
>         politics
>         > here and abroad. I think this is a good discussion to have,
>         but I
>         > don't see any immediate change in our commercial posture
>         unless it's
>         > particularly egregarious.
>         >
>         > Having a political stance baked into OWASP supply chain
>         decisions is a
>         > political decision, whether we like it or not. Not making a
>         decision
>         > is a political decision. I understand that we will not make
>         everyone
>         > happy with this stance, but I think it should be up to the
>         Board to
>         > evaluate this and make a decision if we change our approach
>         or not. I
>         > do not presume to answer for the entire Board, because
>         that's not how
>         > this works.
>         >
>         > thanks,
>         > Andrew
>
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>     -- 
>     -- 
>     Justin Ferguson
>     OWASP-Kansas City Chapter Leader
>     justin.ferguson at owasp.org
>

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