wayathr0w
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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.
>Flock coaches police on denying records requests, inserts itself into the legal process, and sells a 'transparency portal' its own staff calls useless.
Posted by
wayathr0w on Friday March 06, 2026 @04:34PM
from the haveibeenflocked.com dept.
Posted by
wayathr0w on Saturday March 01, 2025 @10:46AM
from the finalnail.com dept.
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.
Do any of these visualizations meaningfully incorporate the fact that many (if not most) books lack ISBNs?
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...
Google is already a "defense" (military) contractor. They sell stuff directly to governments, well aware how it'll be used.
Posted by
wayathr0w on Monday February 03, 2025 @08:48AM
from the aangat.lahat.computer dept.
>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.*
Fuck national security & fuck "the west". These are not things we should seek to protect or defend. (And yes, fuck copyright too.)
Posted by
wayathr0w on Thursday January 23, 2025 @11:17PM
from the paper.wf dept.
Posted by
wayathr0w on Thursday January 23, 2025 @10:52PM
from the notrace.how dept.
Amazing what kidnapping a tech billionaire can get you.
>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.
Posted by
wayathr0w on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @07:37AM
from the freedomnews.org.uk dept.
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.
Posted by
wayathr0w on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @04:37PM
from the twiiit.com dept.
Posted by
wayathr0w on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @05:03PM
from the flprisonersolidarity.org dept.
Posted by
wayathr0w on Friday May 31, 2024 @02:30PM
from the paper.wf dept.