lsi on Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:26:07 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> indymedia servers in UK seized by FBI |
Well I'll come outta lurking and opine that in the long run this is a damn good thing to happen. The actual damage was minimal. But the lessons learned for the community are crystal-clear, none-the-less. 1. Decentralisation is a wonderful thing. More please. 2. We cannot trust or rely upon our societies to protect us (but we knew that already I guess) .... do not seek protection by the law; seek immunity from it. 3. New techniques are required to fully survive a take-down like this. In particular, if contentious content was made available on P2P networks, in such a way that websites such as the IMC's could download and display it, then there would be no point in taking down the webservers, because they are not hosting the content - the network itself is. These actions by our governments do little but hasten progress to a fully independent media network. That is, a content network that cannot be disrupted. With the stakes so low in this particular case, one can but wonder what might happen if a truly shocking expose happened to appear on the activist nets. The confiscation of the IMC servers highlights the urgent need to develop community systems that can withstand such activity, and allows the community to dissect what happened and grow from it. Go in hard - come back harder. Stuart --- Stuart Udall stuart at@cyberdelix.dot net - http://www.cyberdelix.net/ --- * Origin: lsi: revolution through evolution (192:168/0.2) # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net