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Running a Website from Your Prison Cell

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the or-your-redwood-tree dept.

Eh-Wire writes "Although prisoners Internet access is highly restricted, this hasn't prevented many inmates from getting around the restrictions with the judicious use of phone and snail-mail privileges to network with friends, relatives, activists, and associates to provide content to their websites. Some use their websites to badger witnesses and prosecuters, while others plead their case or phish for pen-pals. Some have successfully challenged their convictions through their websites, which complicates efforts by authorities to silence them. Websites domiciled outside of the respective jurisdictions further complicate the issue. Yahoo News has additional commentary on this controversial subject."

7 of 478 comments (clear)

  1. Cruel and unusual.... by Rick+Zeman · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I guess to any slashdotter, NO Internet access would be cruel and unusual punishment.

  2. Re:Prisoners by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they were in there for possession, I've no problem.

    If they were in there for 9 years for fraudulently forging return headers for your spam empire, on the other hand...

  3. re by computerme · · Score: 5, Funny

    All I know is that if i were them I would DOWNLOAD EVERYTHING...

    What's the worse the could do to me? ;)

  4. Herodotus by TheOtherChimeraTwin · · Score: 5, Funny

    A historian named Herodotus tells of a thief who was to be executed. As he was taken away he made a bargain with the king: in one year he would teach the king's favorite horse to surf the internet. The other prisoners watched the thief explaining FireFox to the horse and laughed. "You will not succeed," they told him. "No one can."

    To which the thief replied, "I have a year, and who knows what might happen in that time. The king might die. The horse might die. I might die. And perhaps the horse will learn to post on Slashdot.

  5. Sigh. by Solder+Fumes · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yet again, Slashdot gets my hopes up with a headline that looks like it'll be a "how-to" article.

  6. Hey man... by AliasMoze · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...pack a' smokes for a mod point.

  7. this is an OUTRAGE by deft · · Score: 4, Funny

    Criminals of society being allowed to sit in a dark room on the internet all day, 365 days a year, while the rest of the world goes on around them!!!!??!?

    Thats not how I'd describe criminals in prison... its how I'd describe Slashdot readers.

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