Well, if google controls usenet history, why wouldn't a violence monopoly control logs and the history of the lands it ... controls ? (for all practical purposes the government is a corporation with a very effective PR department and pesuasive means, which it uses to successfuly convince customers that it works for them, that it is even controlled by them. And as we know, branding ... er patriotism ... works) Back to archives. One of the solutions was described in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451: memorize the stuff. It's much easier with computers these days. Download and backup the information YOU deem valuable. It's your fucking choice, don't expect others to do it. It is trivially easy, maybe as easy as whining about bookburning. Look at JYA - all he does is memorize, memorize. Archiving is a valuable service. The Unsolved Problem The most serious problem is getting out of the reach ("juristiction") of a particular Violence, Inc. franchise. Not just storage-wise, but access-wise. Even if I rent a server in Tripoli, the access to it goes through wires controlled by my local ViolCo. It is not filtering out Tripoli now, but I have no doubt that it will should the need arise. You can hide bits by encryption, but you (still) can't hide wires. unrelated - did you notice that "for the children" meme is almost gone and replaced with "against the terrorism" ?
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unrelated - did you notice that "for the children" meme is almost gone and replaced with "against the terrorism" ?
They forgot about "evil drug pushers" as well. British government started to downgrade criminal punishments for hemp within days of this business starting. They always wanted to (why waste all those police wages picking up kids smoking joints?) but never dared to because they think they will lose votes if they look "soft on crime". Every British govt. since at least 1950s has talked louder than it has walked, most ludicrously Thatcher's Tories who introduced scads of laws against everything from dangerous dogs to playing loud music at parties, most of which were never enforced at all. Anything for a headline in the "Something Must Be Done" tabloid press. Now there is a war on, and they can look hard by bombing Afghanistan. So no need to pretend about hemp any more. They are even suggesting being slightly softer on asylum seekers & illegal immigrants, a very unexpected result. Weird. Ken Brown
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