Archive.org Defeats FBI's Demand For User Information

eldavojohn writes "Although we don't know what they were after due to the settlement, a gag order was just released that kept Internet Archive member Brewster Kahle quiet. The FBI had issued a national security letter to them under the Patriot Act. Kahle fought it. Hard. The EFF came to the aid of his lawyers and what resulted was one of the only three times an NSL has been challenged: all three have been rescinded. The FBI agreed to open some of the court files now for it to be public. The ACLU added, 'That makes you wonder about the the hundreds of thousands of NSLs that haven't been challenged.'"

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Re:It's time for Civil Disobedience and Regime Cha

[jimicus]

will there be further ethnic cleansing Excuse me, but that is a particularly offensive phrase. It is a euphemism which causes the casual observer to completely overlook that what you mean is genocide. Nobody ever attempted to clear a country of a race they didn't like by writing to them all and saying "Excuse me, terribly sorry but your skin's the wrong colour. Would you mind very much getting on the next plane and going back to wherever you came from? Thanks. Sorry to be such a trouble."

I'm not going to get into "who's got a right to say what". You're perfectly entitled to use that term, but I'm perfectly entitled to tell you that I don't like it. The phrase "Ethnic cleansing" is political correctness applied to an issue which should never be skirted around.