NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Re: New P2P Privacy System from Univ. of Washington
I guess pedophiles can use ftp - better ban that. How about MSN? ICQ? AOLIM?
HTTP? Yep - better ban all of those. Let's ban memory sticks. OH! All of
these rely on computers. Let's ban them. AND the internet! Ban that too!
Digital cameras! Polaroids! Public transportation! Shoes! Hell, let's just
ban the wheel and lop off everyone's legs just in case everyone are
pedophiles!
OK, if the above didn't make my point - if we banned every technology
because it could be abused in some way by evil people we'd still be eating
raw meat in caves.
Paul
[ I've had a number of press calls very recently relating to the
"Do we need a whole new Internet?" debate that's started up
again. One of the most frequent question sets I've gotten
related to this is variations on "Shouldn't the Internet allow
authorities to track every single byte and exactly who is using
it for everything? Shouldn't you have to be identified before
using the Net for anything?" And so on. Which goes to show how
well those who would use sometimes laudible motives to turn the
Internet into a global tool for political oppression and the
obliteration of civil rights, have been playing the public
discourse and the politics of this topic quite successfully.
-- Lauren Weinstein
NNSquad Moderator ]
-----Original Message-----
From: nnsquad-bounces+paul.w.forbes=gmail.com@nnsquad.org
[mailto:nnsquad-bounces+paul.w.forbes=gmail.com@nnsquad.org] On Behalf Of
Brett Glass
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 10:48 PM
To: Lauren Weinstein; nnsquad@nnsquad.org
Cc: lauren@vortex.com
Subject: [ NNSquad ] Re: New P2P Privacy System from Univ. of Washington
Great. Now pedophiles can share kiddie porn only with other pedophiles
whom they trust not to turn them in. That's "friend to friend" sharing,
alright!
--Brett
At 08:47 PM 2/23/2009, Lauren Weinstein wrote:
>New P2P Privacy System from Univ. of Washington
>
>http://oneswarm.cs.washington.edu/
>
>--Lauren--
>NNSquad Moderator