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>In May 2005, A/I was ordered to close the mailbox used by the Italian Anarchist Black Cross, Crocenera Anarchica, amid a sprawling investigation involving allegations of anarchist conspiracy and subversion. A/I complied with the court order

For those who need to know.

Re:Flock vs. FOIA: The Suppression Manual on Friday March 06, 2026 @04:34PM (#47281372)
>Flock coaches police on denying records requests, inserts itself into the legal process, and sells a 'transparency portal' its own staff calls useless.
Re:DMCA Notices Took Down 31,151 GitHub Projects Last Year on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @03:55AM (#43182013)
Reads like a GitHub press release, except for this:

>The report shows that the platform processed more than 2,000 takedown notices in 2024, which affected 31,151 repositories.

>Of all notices received, just 41 were contested or retracted, and a total of 103 repositories remained online as a result.

Re:Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty on Monday February 24, 2025 @03:49PM (#43164790)
Do any of these visualizations meaningfully incorporate the fact that many (if not most) books lack ISBNs?
Re:Infosec 101 for Activists on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:32AM (#42946585)
What actually happened at 2020's protests & riots in the u.s., in the words of those who were there:

https://paper.wf/downas/partisan-accounts-of-the-george-floy...

Why delegitimizing those who don't abide by the rules of “peaceful protest” amounts to defense of the status quo:

https://north-shore.info/2024/10/04/not-liking-someone-doesn...

Re:Infosec 101 for Activists on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:20AM (#42946502)
Can't speak for OP's link, but as a contrast No Trace Project's resources contain lots of advice from people who actually routinely face state repression, with in-depth analysis of specific cases. The scope is international (though focused on the North Atlantic region) rather than english- & u.s.-exclusive. There are plenty of references to Tor+Tails.

https://www.notrace.how/

http://i4pd4zpyhrojnyx5l3d2siauy4almteocqow4bp2lqxyocrfy6pry...

Re:Infosec 101 for Activists on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:02AM (#42946370)
Some of the crowd here is already aware of the issues with these recommendations, so let's take things up a level.

https://www.notrace.how/ / http://i4pd4zpyhrojnyx5l3d2siauy4almteocqow4bp2lqxyocrfy6pry...

https://www.anarsec.guide/

Google is already a "defense" (military) contractor. They sell stuff directly to governments, well aware how it'll be used.
It's surprising to me that they ever made such a pledge, considering...you know.

http://www.notechforapartheid.com/

>The services under Aangat Lahat is my way of offering some sort of digital mutual aid that provides free online communications to people who want it. *Please know that this server is explicitly against capitalism, states, cops, fascists, racists, antisemitism, sexists, harassment, homophobia, transphobia, ableists, and zionists.*
Re:Copyright reform is necessary for national security on Sunday February 02, 2025 @08:50AM (#42908623)
Fuck national security & fuck "the west". These are not things we should seek to protect or defend. (And yes, fuck copyright too.)
Amazing what kidnapping a tech billionaire can get you.
Re:Visualizing All ISBNs on Sunday January 12, 2025 @02:17PM (#42676031)
>relatively expedient reconstruction

If self-destruction is a necessary premise here, is that really a good thing?

>We need to build an alternative access to knowledge that bypasses the copyright/ownership of knowledge paradigm.

That's what shadow libraries are doing, as are many other older & less prominent models of information distribution. These projects should be proliferated & promoted to challenge the dominant propaganda that people can only do things the U.S. government says they can.

Depends. This case was specifically about a library of books whose uploads were all done or coordinated by IA's employees. That is something different than the various things, including but not at all limited to books, unaffiliated people upload. It's certainly possible "random people's uploads" could come under increasing scrutiny & legal attack as publishing companies are likely feeling emboldened by the victory, but I don't think that's what this specific ruling was about.
This is nonsense. A great many of Internet Archive's in-house scanned books weren't previously available on shadow libraries; many of the Internet Archive scans have meaningful differences from the digital copies available elsewhere; & much of the shadow libraries' collections actually came to them from the Internet Archive. In the case of Anna's Archive specifically, they conducted a massive scrape of IA's library.

I think the legalist approach IA is taking was always doomed, but the enormous resources at their disposal allowed them to do a lot of collecting that other efforts have & will continue to benefit enormously from.

Scott wasn't an anarchist either - hence "Two Cheers" instead of three. He worked for the CIA in the 1960s, self-identified as a "crude Marxist" at best, didn't believe it was possible or necessary to eliminate the state - which he described as a rare but potential force for good - and was a frequent donor to the Democrats.

http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/536292

Right, freedom and independence for the property owners. Whether that property is land, people, or "intellectual" is just as irrelevant to the Dreamer as if that property was obtained by deception or violence.
>In a series of 3 posts, you will be asked to detail which of Biden's accomplishments have touched you personally. Participants will be briefed on his most noteworthy accomplishments and asked to select which one's they'd like to speak on or attest to.