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[Dale <dweide9 AT aim.com>]

I couldn't agree more. The whole allure of OpenNIC to me is keeping an open Internet. An alternate network that isn't regulated by US government whims, that hopefully avoids any censorship. The activist crowd is the exact group I encourage to adopt OpenNIC. I often use an analogy they can wrap their heads around, i.e. that OpenNIC is to the Internet, what open source is to software.

FREEDOM!!! (in my best Mel Gibson imitation) ; )

Dale

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Freeman <todd AT cruxtech.net>
To: discuss <discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org>
Sent: Wed, Apr 4, 2012 8:36 am
Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] An introduction and request

ah, but you are missing the beauty of this plan, I happen to know a lot 
of activists, you may have heard of that new fad, occupy ?
well they have a burning need for things like net neutrality believe it 
or not, and the air of mystery that activism still has. So what we have 
is a large group of people, doing things like flyering, who wouldn't 
mind flyering with instructions to use opennic to access activist 
resources. so its not just a whim thing, people will actually be 
motivated to do it, or seek help from someone else to do it for them.

If the page to sign up for the free wifi, also has a link to sign up for 
free hosting, including free domain on opennic TLD, I don't think that 
will be hard to get people to do. and it can be made the "cool" thing to 
do as well.  I do not think it is farfetched to turn opennic into a fad, 
I can EASILY sell it as pro net-neutrality / anti-globalization, which 
are hot topics currently.

On 2012-04-04 10:20 AM, Maximi89 wrote:
> 2012/4/4<woodq11 AT gmail.com>:
>> I think you'll find that your average customer won't like registering a 
domain
>> which their family, friends, coworkers, etc can't visit.
>>
>> Though it may prove as some evangelism...
> Probably not from other websites, but what about the website of him to
> pay or the first website they can visit and login.
>