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Community Choice Award "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Govt"
Last week we took nominations for a Slashdot category at the SourceForge Community Choice awards. Our category was 'Most Likely to be Shut Down By Government Agency'. Your nominations were tallied, and we arbitrarily selected a few that we think are the best. Today is the day where you can at long last determine the winner, using the incredibly scientifically accurate Slashdot Poll. Our nominees are
Truecrypt,
EFF Patent Busting,
GNU Software Radio,
WikiLeaks,
Cryptome.org,
Tor,
Freenet,
and CowboyNeal.
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I read the earlier story, but it only now just occurred to me that another prime candidate for this is YouTube. The freedom to "Broadcast Yourself" is scary in a lot of general contexts that have already led to a number of government agency censorships around the world.
Also, giving Google the ability to self-censor the content posted (currently, I believe objectionable violence and pornography is banned by the TOS) provides for a bias on the site.
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http://www.truecrypt.org/
http://w2.eff.org/patent/
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/
http://www.wikileaks.org/
http://www.cryptome.org/
http://www.torproject.org/
http://freenetproject.org/
It's got to be WikiLeaks. It's one of the only sites to post that completely crazy garbage that Scientology calls the "OT" levels. And who can forget that draft version of ACTA that got mention here?
Wikileaks has a legal team and the balls to use them to keep running, but that likely won't stop the insensitive clods in the government.
Actually, no. Governments will deal with threats to their sponsors first, then threats to themselves. But that's another argument in favor of WikiLeaks.
Copyright infringement, people posting things they're legally/contractually obligated not to post, etc.
2600
For those of you to whom the number "2600" has no meaning, the courts stopped 2600.org from posting and even linking to DeCSS or the source code (which the last I saw was seven lines of code and still shrinking). It is the website of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. Amazing that anyone at slashdot hasn't heard of it.
The courts held that source code isn't speech, pissing off a LOT of programmers who only know a few languages, all of which are computer languages.
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It's a spam domain, not porn.
TrueCrypt is a mainstream encryption utility used by federal and state agencies, as well as Fortune 100 corporations, to protect data when it must be transported. How does this make it vulnerable to shut down by those same entities?
Think about it, what exactly has been shut down by the government lately? Freenet or Truecrypt anyone???!! I challenge anyone to even find one credible attempt by anyone in government to shut down one of the nominees.
Wikileaks. QED.
One Example
Why is it that when you believe something it's an opinion, but when I believe something it's a manifesto?
There is no such law in Sweden. That is the point that is being made here - it is not the US, and nobody in Sweden gives much thought to what the law might be in another country.
This entire thread is ridiculous because those other projects have all the same factors going against them as GNU Radio. So, they will all be shut down, regardless of which license they are distributed under (wtf? like the man is going to say 'oh no this is BSD license we can't touch it!'). That doesn't really detract from the point at all and, since the others aren't among the choices, the choice has to be GNU Radio.