Re: Crazy idea: How trust in darknets enables secure
Anonymous <[email protected]>
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democratic censorship -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 11:24:42 +0100, you wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:08:25AM +0100, Ian Clarke wrote: > > What a terrible idea. Censorship by majority is still censorship. > > Personally I've always taken the view that censorship is not evil in and > of itself, but that the powerful must not be allowed to wield it to > suppress criticism of themselves. The proposal puts the power of > censorship back in the hands of the majority (in a given community), > lets people who don't like the community's standards go elsewhere (en > bloc), and creates an effective deterrent. Censorship in any form is evil. I don't like a LOT of things that MOST people express, yet they DO and SHOULD have the right to express their ideas. When I begin to censor other peoples thoughts, ideas, opinions and the expression of same, then sooner or later I have guaranteed that my OWN will eventually be forfeit. since I'm not willing to give up MY freedom of expression, I cannot take away someone else's The same goes for 100% anonymity and untraceability. - -- My gpg public key (0x92769D7E) can be found on my freesite: http://127.00.1:8888/SSK@TEx6TiaPeszpV4AFw3ToutDb49EPAgM/mytwoce nts/23//m2ckey.html (you must be running freenet for this link to work) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) - GPGshell v3.44 iD8DBQFC1VNtz+9G5ZJ2nX4RAxvZAJ93s7Jl0HOUbcSGedF0TICleGI3mACg27oV oczaj3j033UV8cnNm7BT58s= =F1BG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ chat mailing list [email protected] Archived: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat Or mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe