--- From: "FreeNet" <liberation@private> To: declan@private Subject: Re: Students receiving cease-desists from Diebold... Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:52:46 GMT For Politech: Ian Clarke, creator of the Freenet network, said: "Most censorship is retrospective, it is generally much easier to curtail free speech by punishing those who exercise it afterward, rather than preventing them from doing it in the first place. The only way to prevent this is to remain anonymous." It seems that no longer does this ideal apply only to, say, Chinese dissidents; it now applies in full to US citizens who are attempting to exercise their first amendment rights to free speech. I am not willing to open myself to the hassle or risk of a subpoena, but I am still willing to do my part. As such, the Diebold mailing list archives have been inserted into Freenet for anyone to retrieve with impunity. While I support Joe Hall, the others at Why-War, and all of those who are taking the risk to host a public mirror, my goal is to ensure the availability and longevity of the information itself, regardless of legal threats. Diebold will, I fear, continue to shut down mirrors which have a readily identifiable contact point. Perhaps a Freenet mirror will be impervious to such shakedowns. The 11MB lists.tgz file, mirrored at several locations which are listed at http://why-war.com/features/2003/10/diebold.html, is now also available on Freenet. The key is: CHK@sgOjWAy4g-0bf0m5biyqnEzWloENAwI,OXw8OfHPfsmLd068BtICKg/lists.tgz The above should be one single unbroken line when attempting to retrieve the key via Freenet. I have not yet located a copy of the GEMS executable or other Diebold-related information aside from the mailing list archives, but if I manage to come across copies of such, they will be inserted into Freenet just the same. _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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