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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dec 22, 2020, 19:02 by frederik@remote.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Hi,<br></div><div><br></div><div>On 22.12.20 10:09, Edward Bainton wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>Unnecessary: anyone in a country that makes it illegal to map military<br></div><div>sites knows about it (or ought to know).<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>...<br></div><blockquote><div>I don't<br></div><div>recall anyone saying "I've just been interrogated for mapping this base<br></div><div>without realising that was illegal - please don't do it!"<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think you might be having a too optimistic picture of how clever human<br></div><div>beings are ;)<br></div><div><br></div><div>I could, for example, perfectly well imagine a hapless western mapper<br></div><div>armchair-mapping Syrian military installations under their real name,<br></div><div>and years later being arrested when they enter the country as a tourist.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Would a warning have helped them? No idea. But it is a serious issue and<br></div><div>creating awareness for it will make our mappers safer. Yes, it might<br></div><div>come across as paternalistic to those who have decided to break the law<br></div><div>after careful consideration - but I'd rather be seen as paternalistic<br></div><div>towards those (whose decision I respect) than be seen as endangering<br></div><div>people by egging them on. A wiki page about how to record the details of<br></div><div>military installations can very well give a thoughtless newbie the<br></div><div>impression that it is of course totally ok to map all these things.<br></div></blockquote><div>+1 I am perfectly fine with fact that I should not visit China, India,<br></div><div>Russia or Noth Korea after repeated comments that I support going against their laws,<br></div><div>made under my real name.<br></div><div><br></div><div>But I can easily imagine someone being surprised and having unexpected<br></div><div>trouble - with mapping military installations it seems more likely to<br></div><div>run into some trouble.<br></div><div><br></div><div>So I support making situation fully clear, it seems to be possible and<br></div><div>serious risk, rather than spurious and unnecessary and obvious warning.<br></div> </body>
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