GIA to use P2P to Avoid Litigaton

DrMorpheus writes "With the recent demise of the Bush administration's controversial Terrorist Information Awareness (TIA) programme to monitor everyone in the US, citizens now have a chance to get their own back. A website to be launched later in 2003 will allow people to post information about the activities of government organisations, officials and the judiciary. The two MIT researchers behind the project face one serious problem: how to protect themselves against legal action should any of the postings prove false. The answer, they say, is to borrow a technique from the underground music-swapping community. Instead of storing the data in one place, they plan to distribute it around the internet in a similar way to the notorious Napster software that got music file-sharing under way."

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Ok, enough of this kook stuff

[Anonymous Coward]

This sounds like typical Alex Jones kook material. The best place to keep up on government activities is to watch CNN and FOX news and from the government themselves. Don't read the seditious trash you see on sites like From the Wilderness or Prisonplanet.com. It's all false and none of it is what people should be reading. There is no need to worry about the government since they are honest and caring people. They're making sure that the terrorists are caught, gun owners are burned to death, tax protestors are brutally beaten and jailed, grandmothers are stripped searched at airports, marijuana smokers are imprisoned, etc. It's all good stuff they do to keep America free, so don't be subversive.

Re:Validity

[rsborg]

Does it seem to anyone else like the GIA program is going to drown in its own chaff? I mean, if it's really supposed to be giving people "insider" information about the government, how are they going to confirm that any submission is true?

I have an awesome idea... They should allow a certain percentage of the users to "Moderate" in a rotating fashion, depending on their usage statistics.
Ah, you say... who will police the police? Good question!
They should also have a group of "Meta-moderators" that "Moderate" the "Moderators", thus preventing malicious "Moderation"... Wow, this is an incredible way to improve the signal to noise ratio!... I should patent it!

Unless, of course there's prior art :-/