Re: censorship in freenet-NG?

Am Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2005 14:32 schrieb Matthew Toseland:
> What do you think we've been doing for the last N years? The whole
> purpose of a darknet would be to make it hard to detect. As far as
> "absolute freedom of speech" goes, nobody has yet convinced me that the
> Church of Scientology, Diebold or the office of Richard Nixon would be
> able to censor material which is in the public interest.

Multiple disconnected darknets (only for christians, only for cp, ...) 
fail to anonymize the connected users. If you join the darknet for pet 
surgery, it is clear what you are looking for (even when the fact of your 
connection to ... is hard to find).
So, there has to be a grand unified darknet with everything, period.

And to the voting thing: There is a big amount of christian people in the 
US. What would be their vote about a freesite which promotes abortion and 
bashes on "christianity" in general? Shall this freesite be torn down for 
ANY reason?

The only censor is the space on every node's harddisk, and this is a good 
thing. I remember some years ago, there was much more right-wing content 
available, where is it gone? Did no one click on the freesite link? How 
sad ;-)

As Ian said, a terrible idea.
I would compare the effects of any censorship inside of freenet to a 
neutron bomb - free speech dies, freenet survives.

good byte

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