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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. The Most Likely Choice... by Fragholio · · Score: 5, Interesting
    ...has got to be WikiLeaks.

    Among the nominees, it's the biggest threat to the governments themselves. And make no mistake, the governments will deal with threats to itself before others.

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    1. Re:The Most Likely Choice... by packeteer · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Yes and it wont be shut down again in the same way. They learned a lot from that shutdown. They are pretty paranoid about hosting in different jurisdictions and coming up with technical ways to get around any shutdown.

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  2. Missing option by phsdv · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Missing Option: All of the above...

  3. Not a suggestion by petes_PoV · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Given that most governments now consider George Orwell's classic: 1984 more as an instruction manual than a warning, someone should make it clear to the govt. that we are not asking them to close these sites down.

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  4. Re:Any Serious Chance It'll Happen???!!! by Steauengeglase · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wouldn't call this scaremongering. Just having a little fun.

    There is something about geeks that leads them to be more suspicious of authority. Perhaps it is being ostracized at a young age or the fact that there are simply a lot of really dumb people out there who have somehow manage to get a little power.