Whether or not you truly believe there is no illegal material on freenet is a question for the jury. Given the fact that there are numerous warnings about it, a huge number of frost boards are dedicate to KP, and all the main search pages have many listings for warz and KP; a jury probably would find it laughable. People do have the right to communicate with out government oversight everywhere, including the internet. If all you do is communicate legal information anonymously then there is an alternative, its called the world wide web.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 7:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [freenet-chat] RE: anonymity(NOT) Importance: Low I have doubts that illegal material is posted on Freenet. After all, I haven't seen any illegal material, I've only heard rumors about it. However, if there is illegal material on Freenet it's my belief that this material is posted by governments/organizations hostile to the goals of Freenet and not retrieved by the legitimate users in the Freenet community. Even if the material is retrieved by someone I am sure it is by these same hostile governments/organizations in order to spread FUD about Freenet. Are my beliefs unreasonable? I don't know, a lot of people believe in UFOs, crop circles, invisible beings dressed in white with wings that help people, mysterious men in black, secret government conspiracies, etc. In this context my beliefs seem to reasonable to me. To suppose that an accused's state of mind isn't a defense is laughable. It's also ridiculous to argue that people have the right to communicate without government oversight, except on the internet. Let me say that I only use Freenet to communicate, anonymously, legal information and because there are no better alternatives. Unless your position is the government has the right to monitor ALL communication. I don't find that position funny at all but downright scary instead. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general _______________________________________________ chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general
