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Hacking For Free Speech In the end, who's likely to win the battle - the censoring government, or the hackers who oppose them? The hackers make clear that they expect their own ultimate victory:
"Hacking is a contact sport. We're trying to maintain contact with as many people as possible. The world is far too small a place to disconnect millions of people from one another. And governments that attempt to separate and divide the world rather than bring it together are on a collision course with the inevitable. There's an arrogant and misguided notion that somehow dictators will be able to exploit the Internet to improve their economies, yet put a chokehold on content they don't like. Good luck, nitwits." These guys have been around a while (in fact, I wrote a paper about them for PoliSci class in '99, I think), and I've been fairly impressed by them. They don't talk much about what they've actually done, but if you do a little digging every time China announces a new internet policy, you can bet these guys had a hand in destroying the old one.
posted by
Matthew Carroll-Schmidt at 11:23 AM
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