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Freenet Project More Stable, In Need
An anonymous reader writes "The Freenet Project is asking for donations to help keep their main programmer, Matthew Toseland. After a long time, finally Freenet, software which 'lets you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship' is working fine (and fast) again, since their overload problems are almost completely fixed. They even plan to write a paper about the overload problems. If you want to try, be sure to run the latest stable or unstable snapshot."
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First off, in the information age there is no difference between, free speech content, copyright content, or any other type of content. You are just going to half to get used to that, either we half to appoint someone to watch all of it or none of it. Just because people worship evil cults doesn't mean that we shouldn't have freedom of religion. Just because people write bad things and tabloid trash doesn't mean we shouldn't have freedom of the press. It's no different with content, it's sad that some people find such trash entertaining, but that's just the way it is. Maybe you should disconnect from the internet because your computer uses the same routers as that stuff too.
Second, there is no such thing as evil content, only evil choices. How do you know that you aren't looking at a digitally created police photo used for training purposes? I think it's sick that you would put such an evil act on the same level as the evil content.
And finally, from the time of Moses, to the American revolution, to Rosa Parks not sitting at the back of the bus. History has prooven that the only way to mak
e a serious change in the system is defiance - and that freenet is! People don't exist to serve systems, systems exist to serve people. When it comes to copyright imposition, and content sensoring the system is failing and stacked
against us. Freenet is a real solution.
Big business only has power over you (for example the power to silence free speech) if government grants them that power. Without the aid of government, big business would have no more or less rights than you or me.
In other words, give credit where credit is due. Government is the root of the problem.