Comment by TulliusCicero

There's more.

  What the [Zambian] government wanted ... in order for RightsCon to continue, we would have to moderate specific topics and exclude communities at risk, including our Taiwanese participants, from in-person and online participation.

  We invested months in building government relationships focused precisely on transparency and mutual understanding, including explicit conversations about the diversity of our community ...

  This was our red line. Not because we were unwilling to engage, but because the conditions set before us were unacceptable and counter to what RightsCon is and what Access Now stands for.