EPISODE · Nov 23, 2011 · 7 MIN
The Darknet Project
from salimfadhley · host salimfadhley
the network should be an indiscriminate carrier of information regardless of the source, destination or nature of the information being transmitted. Some newly proposed legislation threatens to undermine: In America the Protect IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act propose to regulate the internet by blocking so-called "rogue web-sites". Internet activists have compared this regulation to the great firewall of china - in that if built it will be the the most radical and extensive form of censorship ever divised. There's already a great deal of opposition to this policy, however some activists have decided to view censorship as an technical problem, one requiring an engineering solution. I soke with Hose Manuel from the Darknet Project about a his community plan to re-imagine an Internet which could route-around any govnenrment censorship When we think of revolutionaries, the most obvious image is of that of political activists like Ghandi or Martin Luther King - but perhaps the Darknet project is a new form of political revolution, one plotted in computer-science departments and basement dens. The Darknet project may be far from complete but it's dream of an Internet completely free of censorship is one that I believe will come to be.
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the network should be an indiscriminate carrier of information regardless of the source, destination or nature of the information being transmitted. Some newly proposed legislation threatens to undermine: In America the Protect IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act propose to regulate the internet by blocking so-called "rogue web-sites". Internet activists have compared this regulation to the great firewall of china - in that if built it will be the the most radical and extensive form of censorship ever divised. There's already a great deal of opposition to this policy, however some activists have decided to view censorship as an technical problem, one requiring an engineering solution. I soke with Hose Manuel from the Darknet Project about a his community plan to re-imagine an Internet which could route-around any govnenrment censorship When we think of revolutionaries, the most obvious image is of that of political activists like Ghandi or Martin Luther King - but perhaps the Darknet project is a new form of political revolution, one plotted in computer-science departments and basement dens. The Darknet project may be far from complete but it's dream of an Internet completely free of censorship is one that I believe will come to be.
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