Re: China starts to get serious over cyberspace
Matthew Toseland <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]> Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:11:37 +0100
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--===============1941554859== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1357586.fck6Dntf2V"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --nextPart1357586.fck6Dntf2V Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 19 June 2009 07:44:34 Alan Grimes wrote: > I had wanted a freenode for a long long time. >=20 > Then I finally got a place of my own. >=20 > So I set up my node on my athlon 800.. >=20 > and it just sat there. > and collected data, >=20 > and then I tried to do some browsing, >=20 > and performance was always horrible. How much bandwidth did it have? How much memory? >=20 > And I left it running for a few weeks... >=20 > Finally, I decided I needed the bandwidth for something useful. =3D\ >=20 > Freenet is a great concept, I just wish it worked. =3D( >=20 >=20 > Luke771 wrote: > > Matthew Toseland wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 03:54:31PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: > >> =20 > >>> <snip> > >>> =20 > >> After a sustained campaign in the press, a legal challenge and several= =20 > >> security holes being discovered, China's Ministry of Industry and=20 > >> Information Technology has clarified that "The use of this software is= =20 > >> not compulsory". Those who uninstall it will not face prosecution. > >> > >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8106526.stm > >> _______________________________________________ > >> =20 > > in the meantime, internet censorship is now law in germany, and it has= =20 > > been for a relatively long time in australia. > > my guess: eu and uk next, us will take longer because of their=20 > > constiution but sooner or later the net will be censorted there too. > >=20 > > I expect a flow of new users from germany as a reaction to the new=20 > > censorship laws, pretty much the same as it happened in france after th= e=20 > > new fascist laws lots of people installed freenet. I wonder why we have= =20 > > relatiovely few autralian users, when autralia is by far the worst in=20 > > the formerly free world, when it comes to censorship... > >=20 > > also, it looks like italian users are finally growing in number, after= =20 > > the introduction of some new fascist laws with a couple of italian=20 > > indexes that have been added lately, some blogs, and even a page from a= n=20 > > 'alternative' politician (yeah, right) > >=20 > > the trend is clear: more fascist laws, more censorship laws =3D more=20 > > freenet users. Now the point is how to make them stay and how to make=20 > > them bring their friends (offering interesting content?) --nextPart1357586.fck6Dntf2V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABCAAGBQJKO6qpAAoJEHsvjZi+xPTD3zkP/jHJJ/+4IFgz9ktx5jNLX9fn /hoLXIK+BEKbS27nxyOG37JPRDD6q2o1qcK/qqRhJDc/Vm2qg6vxPKTTlZCR51h7 nMptKvaudBVVjmLJ3AAMdTFBCdaR7oFsiRzwNS4KMtgW48rj4s6gMsQuG9A0NLjX sezCsIQ7S0lSDBVhxJEJYty/8PBFdsdYPYTM5hxVTmIn4YgDluD071ZDCo5Kzmpc esgBs6KyJ3Ixg/6sTiWGFbwllZm+DHI5AGhmhZ3Lh0ab7fPd3ivflzKAomVvgwZo vjz3Z3Adljd9Xc1QN5G6TB29iUL7WWdSP8kyrWgptaLE1IoNt9ZFdAf9l5GgfEXD wOBznsgefG8fbk14qiqYKo4frYlJp1bvWaGmbfKlMoyKxgxIzgS8JwPTsJ7/TiP6 ljSXkmRl5562BEtjVE7oAQ+lmyeUcQ4wxkkghXl7gzvsfTCrfJQXlTmd9A5NqTto xl3AuXkH0OUlrlA29Tf0pl9J+xIl8B+Xm3Fjo1EnPuJatVbTYBUW0HbNVbRbOP3y W/2SSp7S5LMGirmN19ZLjDeIPsg5yT14c9N4R1iwBcy1r7vthoscgVlZGjO65n5o ciq24xb4g1UZLIOFCy6kJV9yIvBQ3OZj3ja68ypzONn6E/Sk4+WDoU/y9NytUEuT nGAR0HGjQvkzd5RhFKrn =3kA3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1357586.fck6Dntf2V-- --===============1941554859== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ chat mailing list [email protected] Archived: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat Or mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe --===============1941554859==--