Toad wrote:
They are not indexed by google because by default fproxy sends a robots.txt indicating that it shouldn't be spidered.
Aaah, I see. That explains S' comment too. Well, current legislation does not require me to learn java, but it does not forbid me to either ;)
[prosecutor's block orders]
So they go after us and make us provide a version with that option.
Yes, theoretically they they could try, but who is "us" in an open source project? If all they wanted was to force X content out of a certain node, I think they'd go for the easiest way and take down the node. If they want more, such as a tool to monitor and control underground communications, they'd write their own and present it to the public as an improved freenet version.
In fact, that's exactly what it says on freenetproject.org, "new stable version released". Ask me, did I carefully read and analyse the code I'm running? Did I build everything myself from source? Erhm, uhm, well, can we change the subject?
[UK]
But perhaps other jurisdictions are more sane.
There was a cartoon in Punch a few years ago - I so regret I didn't keep it - depicting Bush playing a tambourine and Blair in the form of a small monkey on a chain, dancing to it. That cartoonist really captured the whole essence of the situation in a few penstrokes. If the US has a patriot act, why would the UK not have one?
The proletariat are the majority. Democracy is "the rule of the mob". And btw, they're not proles. They're middle class in the modern newspeak. They're middle income. They just read the Sun ;).
Hey, that makes you and me the elite, the intelligentsia, the avant-garde in this swamp we live in. Lets see it from the bright side :)
Seriously, it's a lot easier to convince the average person that Freenet is evil than that it is needed.
Interestingly, it's seldom you read in the paper about petty mafiosi, illegal immigrants and street bums getting caught with big archives of kiddie porn. Invariably they are well-established members of the middle or higher middle class (the real upper class is above suspicion, so it doesn't get caught). The class that uses illegal content on freenet is the very class that proclaims to be against it. Perhaps "mirrornet" would be a better name for it: what you see there is what you are.
Duh. We have come a very long way from technical support and I doubt everybody around is interested in these philosophical aspects.
Z
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