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[Peter Green <peter AT greenpete.co.uk>]

Yes, I know how hard it is to make changes to our so called democratic
system, (the U.K. isn't much better, if at all!).

BUT, we must do what we can I guess.

Voting in the elections just replaces one lying puppet with another (in 
the
U.S. and the U.K), so we do what we can, even if it is a puny geo' site
block.

Having said that, we are doing more by helping support OpenNIC and 
other
good causes, (A.V.A.A.Z. being another good one).

Peter

On Sat, 9 Jun 2012 12:20:56 -0500, Alex Hanselka wrote:

> On Jun 9, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Peter Green wrote:
>
> > As I state on the only page available in the U.S. on my main site, 
> > that
> > it is because of the U.S. government that people that want to veiw 
> > my
> > site can't and I implore U.S. citizens to work on fixing their 
> > broken
> > government.
> Oh as if we can fix it :P (I sorta joke, its possible but most people
> are dumb as is clearly evident)
>
> > Most of the visitors to my site were U.S. citizens.
> >
> > I think it a reasonable measure, knowing that you can access my site
> > from the U.S. via a proxy, it's not an out an out block, just a
> > statement.
> >
> > I don't expect the OpenNIC site to ever be unavailable in the U.S. 
> > so
> > hopefully people will have the resources at hand that they need.
> >
> > Again we see it's not just about privacy either, it's about the 
> > right
> > to free unrestricted access to the Internets.
> >
> > It does make me wonder if OpenNIC needs an I.C.A.N.N. T.L.D. outside 
> > of
> > the U.S. though?
> For now, ORG is safe and perhaps when new gTLDs are released we can
> think about that. The main issue historically is that other than 
> gTLDs,
> there are only country specific TLDs in ICANN space and OpenNIC is 
> not
> and would rather not appear to be specific to any country. Who knows,
> that may change someday :)
>
> ---
> Alex Hanselka
> alex AT opennicproject.org [1]


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