Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 03:54:31PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: > >> <snip> >> > > After a sustained campaign in the press, a legal challenge and several > security holes being discovered, China's Ministry of Industry and > Information Technology has clarified that "The use of this software is > not compulsory". Those who uninstall it will not face prosecution. > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8106526.stm > _______________________________________________ > in the meantime, internet censorship is now law in germany, and it has been for a relatively long time in australia. my guess: eu and uk next, us will take longer because of their constiution but sooner or later the net will be censorted there too.
I expect a flow of new users from germany as a reaction to the new censorship laws, pretty much the same as it happened in france after the new fascist laws lots of people installed freenet. I wonder why we have relatiovely few autralian users, when autralia is by far the worst in the formerly free world, when it comes to censorship... also, it looks like italian users are finally growing in number, after the introduction of some new fascist laws with a couple of italian indexes that have been added lately, some blogs, and even a page from an 'alternative' politician (yeah, right) the trend is clear: more fascist laws, more censorship laws = more freenet users. Now the point is how to make them stay and how to make them bring their friends (offering interesting content?) _______________________________________________ chat mailing list chat@freenetproject.org Archived: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat Or mailto:chat-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
