[axxs-sysadmin] resistance is fertile: hints for reacting to "cease-and-desist" letters

[boud]

hi all,

These are some links i suggest could be very useful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cease_and_desist

and the links at the bottom, e.g.:

http://www.chillingeffects.org/

http://fairusenetwork.org/
   http://fairusenetwork.org/reference/td.php

<patronising-rant>
Resisting censorship by terrorist organisations (those who threaten
the use of (state or non-state) violence for political and/or economic
reasons) is fertile! But it does require work, patience, coordination
and deciding which particularly struggles are worth fighting
over. "Non-violent resistance" - i.e. accepting the censorship on one
website and then publishing the news about the censorship on other
websites usually defeats the goal of censorship, since it creates lots
of bad publicity for the censor rather than keeping the criticism
quiet.

However, wide public support for the victims of censorship depends on
how interesting/socially valuable the censored information is judged
to be by the public. It also depends on particular social/cultural
time and epoch. This is (one of the reasons) why having grassroots
collectives of a variety of local activists and activist groups enables
local indymedia collectives to be fairly resistant to censorship attempts.
</patronising-rant>


For virtually uncensorable, untraceable distribution of info, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUnet

The only drawback is that people who don't know how to access Freenet
or GNUnet cannot access the info there (AFAIK).  The more people that 
use them, the more that they will become untraceable and irrepressible.


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boud