Re: Crazy idea: How trust in darknets enables secure democratic censorship

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:59:13PM -0400, Evan Daniel wrote:
> On 7/12/05, Matthew Toseland <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > /me renames Freenet PornNet. ;)
> > 
> > I have friends who rsync their porn. But I can see your point. Is this
> > an issue only for porn? What class of material is subject to this
> > consideration? Personally I avoid material that could be used to
> > blackmail me, traceable or not.
> 
> And I have friends who watch porn in coed groups.  I think they're
> weird, but then they probably say the same about my ex-poultry :)

Co-ed groups?

> Other classes of material: anything that could be seen as incitement
> to revolt probably counts.  The difference between rebels that history
> approves of vs condemns appears to be decided after the fact.  Having
> Freenet be relevant to revolutions would be damaged by this, right? 

So if you are trying to start a revolution, and the network as a whole
disapproves, you don't want that fact to be revealed to your "friends".

> And it seems entirely reasonable for me to want to anonymize my
> revolutionary plots by mixing them up with other people's searches for
> deceased fowls.
> 
> Writings about drug use also come to mind, though these seem to be
> relatively accepted on the public internet.  That probably isn't as
> true in, say, much of Asia, though.
> 
> > 
> > Your privacy against local nodes is only an issue if your content is
> > voted down.
> 
> If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear.

Hah.
> 
> Evan Daniel
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