Library installs Tor exit node; pulls plug after pressure from DHS

[rysiek]

Dnia czwartek, 10 września 2015 21:21:32 grarpamp pisze:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Shelley <shelley at misanthropia.org> wrote:
> > Via Propublica:
> > http://www.propublica.org/article/library-support-anonymous-internet-brows
> > ing-effort-stops-after-dhs-email
> > 
> > More background:
> > http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/crypto-activists-announce-visio
> > n-for-tor-exit-relay-in-every-library/
> > 
> > The project itself:
> > https://libraryfreedomproject.org/torexitpilotphase1/
> > 
> > The library board meets on the 15th of this month and will decide whether
> > to turn it back on.
> 
> A lot of support should be lent right now to the city managers, library
> board, and the community. You don't want the first one to be publicly
> quashed by a bunch of shameful LEA fearmongering.
> Show up the board meeting, you can bet they will.

From what I hear the library is getting some considerable positive feedback. 
There's also an EFF petition:
https://act.eff.org/action/support-tor-and-intellectual-freedom-in-libraries

-- 
Pozdrawiam,
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak

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