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Re:A cold war bunker that became home to a dark-web empire by quesera on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @05:18PM (#23980807)
> Kamphuis ... promoted anti-authoritarian, libertarian ideas. Among his tenets: free speech is supreme; everyone has a right to be online; the Internet erases the power of the state; copyright is twentieth-century bullshit.

> Such notions were in fashion during the nineties, when big technology firms had yet to dominate the Internet.

I'm finding this stark use of the past tense personally painful.

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Re:A cold war bunker that became home to a dark-web empire by oneplane on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @07:38PM (#23981854)
It's not very big outside of the USA culture as far as I'm aware. I suppose it depends on your location and cultural context as to the 'currentness' of those concepts.

Perhaps it's also a matter of scale; the classical groups that would be in to that stuff have changed both shape and size in that area of Europe and are not really all that visible or impactful.

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