The person below (name removed) suggests that we should include the date for the Godwin quote. Personally I frequently see quotes that don't include dates, so I don't think this is a conspicuous omission on our part.
Anyone have strong feelings on the topic? Ian. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *[redacted]* Date: 2010/12/10 Subject: please update the Godwin quote with the day, year and source (reference inside) To: Ian Clarke <ian at freenetproject.org> Hi Ian, The quote by Mike Godwin on the page http://freenetproject.org/whatis.htmlhas no day or even year specified. People who are new to the quote may not realize it is already almost 15 years old. The quote, according to the EFF web page https://w2.eff.org/Misc/EFF/?f=quotes.eff.txt with date and source is: "I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 or 20 years from now she will come to me and say, "Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'" - EFF staff counsel Mike Godwin, "Fear of Freedom: The Backlash Against Free Speech on the 'Net" at the Feb. 13 1996, Oakland, Calif. New Media Technology conference. Thanks for working on Freenet. Cheers, [...redacted...] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20101211/fd792afb/attachment.html>
