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[Jon Hebb <somebodyrocks AT gmail.com>]

Also, my statement was pointed at the OpenNIC membership as a whole,
not just Travis.... I believe in developing the domain - I didn't
purchase it for anyone person to use.

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Jon Hebb <somebodyrocks AT gmail.com> wrote:
> Purchased, where do you want it?
>
> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Travis McCrea <teamcoltra AT gmail.com> wrote:
>> Did we have anyone else thats willing to help? I would really like at
>> least one more person to help out. We also need someone to donate the
>> domain "DomainFreedom.info".
>>
>> If someone gets the domain I will start working and putting things
>> together. :)
>>
>> On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 08:24 -0400, Alex Buie wrote:
>>> I love this idea, and definitely would like to contribute.
>>>
>>>  I can also provide hosting for the pages on one of my cPanel servers
>>> (that use ONIC DNS), if we need it.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alex Buie
>>> Network Engineer
>>> KWD Services, Inc.
>>> (703)445-3391 ext. 804
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Travis McCrea <teamcoltra AT gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>         Hello everyone,
>>>         I am Travis "TeamColtra" McCrea, many of you who frequent IRC
>>>         probably
>>>         already know me, and to those of you who don't you can check
>>>         out my blog
>>>         at http://travismccrea.com. Now that we have taken care of
>>>         that I would
>>>         like to bring up an important matter regarding domains, and
>>>         potentially
>>>         advancing OpenNIC by exposing us to a much bigger audience.
>>>
>>>         As a few of you may know, the United States Federal Government
>>>         is using
>>>         a new tactic to shut down websites that they do not like,
>>>         which is going
>>>         after the domain itself. Most fringe domain TLDs are not in
>>>         danger, but
>>>         the two most popular are, those are .COM and .NET. Of course
>>>         this is an
>>>         attack on Free Speech by the US Government and it pushes what
>>>         they feel
>>>         to be wrong onto the rest of the world.  (please see
>>>         
>>> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/justice-department-piracy/ for
>>>         a more lengthy overview of what I have just said, or read the
>>>         bill
>>>         itself here http://torrentfreak.com/images/coica.pdf .
>>>
>>>         However, this is the perfect time to make people aware of
>>>         other domain
>>>         alternatives, in particular OpenNIC. We can use the publicity
>>>         momentum
>>>         to attempt to get this stopped from being passed (while also
>>>         trying to
>>>         get people to switch to OpenNIC), and whats great for the
>>>         campaign is
>>>         that if it passes, we can then post on all the domains that
>>>         are getting
>>>         shut down by the United States, and show for each one that
>>>         they need to
>>>         come to OpenNIC (as well as working with these websites to
>>>         switch over
>>>         -- think if people needed to access wikileaks at
>>>         wikileaks.free); We
>>>         could also keep track of further bills trying to be passed by
>>>         governments if it fails (just like the Internet Kill Switch,
>>>         the US
>>>         Senators will try and piggyback this onto another bill, if it
>>>         fails).
>>>
>>>         What I would do is get domainfreedom.info (because its only
>>>         like a buck)
>>>         and domainfreedom.free, then get a wordpress install on it, to
>>>         start
>>>         feeding people news updates about this new bill thats trying
>>>         to be
>>>         passed in congress, and even if it fails, then we need to stay
>>>         on top of
>>>         it so they don't try to throw it into a new bill like they
>>>         have been
>>>         doing with the internet kill switch, if it passes then we
>>>         expose the
>>>         public to all the domains that are being taken down
>>>
>>>         What we also need is volunteers, its not a huge deal, 10-20
>>>         minutes a
>>>         day with research and posting onto the twitter account that we
>>>         would
>>>         create (maybe a facebook page too).
>>>
>>>         We also email different news sources that are more...
>>>         sympathetic to us.
>>>         ARS, TorrentFreak, and Wired might run articles. RantMedia.ca
>>>         would also
>>>         run a spot on their radio program for us for sure. We could
>>>         use these to
>>>         get the word out about our campaign against domain censorship
>>>         and FOR
>>>         using OpenNIC.
>>>
>>>         I can do a lot of this, but I can't do it alone. I will help
>>>         organize a
>>>         team if we can have one assembled, we would also need hosting
>>>         for the
>>>         website (a host that supports OpenNIC of course). I will be
>>>         willing to
>>>         work with you guys on how to canvass twitter users to engage
>>>         in
>>>         conversation with the ones talking about similar topics (if
>>>         you don't
>>>         know how to already, the best way will be to just use
>>>         hootsuite).
>>>
>>>         We could get this going and gain a lot of attention really
>>>         quickly if we
>>>         work together and agree to get this done, but we obviously
>>>         need feedback
>>>         from you on if you even WANT to do this, and who would want to
>>>         help, and
>>>         who has what to offer to this team of people.
>>>         --
>>>         Travis McCrea
>>>         1(206)552-8728
>>>         http://travismccrea.com
>>>
>>>         The Pirate ideology is like going organic, but free, and
>>>         doesn't go
>>>         moldy as fast.
>>>
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>> --
>> Travis McCrea
>> 1(206)552-8728
>> http://travismccrea.com
>>
>> The Pirate ideology is like going organic, but free, and doesn't go
>> moldy as fast.
>>
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> Jon Hebb
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