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Community Choice Award "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Govt"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the make-your-sarcastic-vote-heard dept.

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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  1. YouTube? by RobBebop · · Score: 4, Informative

    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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  2. Re:Links please? by x_MeRLiN_x · · Score: 5, Informative

    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/

  3. Plugging the 'Leaks by ZackZero · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:The Most Likely Choice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, no. Governments will deal with threats to their sponsors first, then threats to themselves. But that's another argument in favor of WikiLeaks.

  5. Re:The Most Likely Choice... by moderatorrater · · Score: 5, Informative

    Copyright infringement, people posting things they're legally/contractually obligated not to post, etc.

  6. Re:Any Serious Chance It'll Happen???!!! by d34thm0nk3y · · Score: 3, Informative

    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

  7. Re:Any Serious Chance It'll Happen???!!! by idonthack · · Score: 3, Informative
    In February of this year, a judge in the US issued a restraining order on the domain "wikileaks.org".

    Dynadot shall immediately clear and remove all DNS hosting records for the wikileaks.org domain name and prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or any other website or server other than a blank park page, until further order of this Court.
    This came around the time of an arson attack and a significant DDoS attack. Wikinews article
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  8. Re:The Most Likely Choice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.