Oops, silly me, I didn't reply to the list :) --- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Are UFOs laughable? Angels? Men in Black? Ghosts? Government conspiracies? Need I go on? My belief in this matter is not only not laughable, it very likely true. I doubt people would have trouble believing that various governments around the world would break the law to discredit Freenet. After all the have the means, motive and opportunity not to mention plausible deniablility :) > 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. THE WEB IS NOT ANONYMOUS. Seriously. If you don't undertand that then you are either ignorant or a troll. I'm beginning to think it's the latter. > > -----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 > __________________________________ 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
