We need to find a way to take back the initiative. We need to find a way to put the fear of God into liers.
I'm outta step here, I know, but it seems to me that if we're going to go around advocating anonymity and technology that makes censorship impossible we'd better grow thicker skins. Phil changed the world. Maybe not as much as people like Roosevelt or Reagan, but a lot more than most people do. He wrote a software package that's in wide use, and which has lots of admirers. He used technology to effect positive political changes around the world -- noteworthy both for the effect and the ingenuity of the strategy. And he stood up under a personal attack from the government. They came at him, but he took it and won. Everyone who does something extraordinary gets hit with pot shots. It's part of the package. Is it a terrible thing that someone called him a name in print? Yes. If he's got a case, he should sue. But something tells me he's tough enough to take it either way.
Violence won't work, since they are capable of human-wave attacks.
And because it's wrong?