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To Orwellian Governments Around the Globe, Censoring = Fortifying the Censored!
I must admit that I am quite perturbed by the sheer amount of effort
concentrated at not only censoring Wikileaks, but the censoring of media
outlets that meerely comment on Wikileaks! It has become truly
Orwellian in stature, and the worst part is that the attempts to censor
something as distributed and collective in intellectual capital as the
Internet is futile. All it has done has created ample bad will for
governments worldwide, and those corporations that bowed to the pressure
of said governments yet refuse to admit it. The bad will has gotten to
the point where even I am pulling my patronage from Amazon (that means
colored Nooks from now on, not Kindles, Barnes & Nobles for books
and not Amazon.com, and Netflix for streaming content in lieu of Video
on Demand). I can understand the need to bow to the pressure of the US
government if you need to stay in business, but to cowtow and lie takes
it a step to far.
S, now that Amazon, the US government and a host of other entities
have bandied together to censor Wikileaks and those media outlets that
report on it, they have made Wikileaks more popular than Wikipedia
itself! In addition, due to the distributed, collective community
intelligence nature of the Internet, they have also (by pulling the plug
on its conventional infrastructure) created a nearly unassailable
infrastructure in the process. So, Wikileaks is banned in the Library of
Congress, corporate intranets, and Amazon, but it lives everywhere
else. You see, Censorship is to the Internet as Contagion is to a Host
Body. The Internet (eg. the host body) moves to remove censorship as
contagion. See below:
Mirror WikiLeaks Anonymously on Your Android Phone! Dec 5, 2010 These instructions are complete with root, server, automirror, and firewall… and there’s more:
Go around town to popular open wifi access points, connect to them, and save them.
If you want to be really sneaky, install a
remote access app. That way you can leave the phone plugged in at an
anonymous indoor location near a public wifi hotspot, such as in the
ceiling of a utility closet of a public library. Just remember to set
it to reboot regularly in case something locks up.
Conclusion
If even a percentage of users did this,
there would be tens of thousands of WikiLeaks mirrors hidden around the
globe. Quite simple, really. And it makes the shutting down of
WikiLeaks.com seem as utterly foolish as it was.
With millions of Android phones being sold every month, imagine if
just .02% of those followed these directions! Your talking roughly two
or three thousand additional Wikileak mirror sites, anonymously
distributed, every month.
Below is a Twitter dump on the mirroring of the Wikileaks site, and
keep in mind that these tweeted instructions are coming in at an AVERGAGE OF 3 PER SECOND!
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jerezim: #Wikileaks mass-mirroring begins! Give server space to fight #censorship! http://46.59.1.2/mass-mirror.html #StreisandEffect -
cableleaks: Wikileaks IP addresses http://46.59.1.2 http://213.251.145.96 Mirror http://www.powned.tv/wikileaks/ -
arikan: make it impossible to ever fully remove Wikileaks from the Internet. host wikileaks on your server http://wikileaks.ch/mass-mirror.html -
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naneem: RT @jerezim: #Wikileaks mass-mirroring begins! Give server space to fight #censorship! http://46.59.1.2/mass-mirror.html #StreisandEffect -
AndaluciaPark: RT @jerezim: #Wikileaks mass-mirroring begins! Give server space to fight #censorship! http://46.59.1.2/mass-mirror.html #StreisandEffect -
Fernhoren: tienen servidor web con UNIX? colaboren con wikileaks para hacer webs espejo http://213.251.145.96/mass-mirror.html -
AgentBroiler: RT @Muschelschloss: The biggest #List ever – Hundreds of #Wikileaks-Mirrors – #Mirror #imwikileaks #Update6 http://j.mp/gANGWf Also in #PDF http://j.mp/hXuqy4 -
Harizavljevic: RT @Muschelschloss: Update (05.Dec.) Please RT > Big List of #WikiLeaks-Mirrors #cablegate #mirror – many Websites – http://tl.gd/79s9r1 -
outmediacz: RT @blisty: Pres sedmdesat serveru funguje pro WikiLeaks jako mirror http://blisty.cz/cplj -
eins11: #Wikileaks testet die Mirror Server ->Accepted publickey for *** from *** port *** ssh2 -> “GET /test_rsync.html HTTP/1.0″ 200 54 “-” “Wg… -
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cooljustice: RT @mweulink: Post the ipadress of your mirror on #wikileaksmirrorip and we’ll add them to our new wikileaks domain! #wikileaks #cablegate #imwikileaks -
HndrkWll: RT @thaicables: By now governments should realize that censorship never works! Actual Wikileaks mirror list: http://goo.gl/P8A8C
)The Internet has become practically impossible to censor. I will do
my part Monday and Tuesday by releasing information that debunks the
misinformation and disinformation that has been disseminated by both
several governments world wide, complete with plenty of proof to back it
up. This stuff wasn’t leacked, but it did have to be forced from the
governments through legal means, so I guess its the same effect. Let’s
hope BoomBustBlog doesn’t go dark before then…
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Back in the Cold War, I recall hearing about the story about how the FBI (or was is the CIA, I'm not sure) infiltrated the Soveiet Embassy in Washington. The Embassy used Xerox machines and had Xerox personnel come in and do maintenance. The FBI (or CIA) worked with Xerox to train an agent to act as a Xerox maintenance guy who attended the Embassy when requested. This agent installed copies of the copies the Soviets made on these machines. So when replacement cartridges were sought, the agent came back, uninstalled the old cartridge still containing the copies and installed a new one that would do the same job.
So how likely or unlikely do you think it is that the US government via the FBI etc. has made similar arrangements with google, Microsoft, etc. to gather information for its use??Personally I think it's highly likely. So the vitriol being voiced against Amaxon, PayPal, etc. is something like being blinded by the trees and not seeing the forest.
Let's hope.
There are probably enough sheeple to keep them in wool and lamb chops for a while, but if the bottom line gets hammered enough they will have to blink and think at least.
who says?
you say. i say. we say.
stop using them. rip the brands off your mouth.
remember these companies have your bank account information & have the capability to deduct funds from your bank account at any time.
do you really trust these companies to act responsibly? if you can't answer that question with an unqualified yes, then the decision to withdraw your participation with them is simply prudent personal economic risk management.
"Since 2007 we have been deliberately placing some of our servers in jurisdictions that we suspected suffered a free speech deficit inorder to separate rhetoric from reality. Amazon was one of these cases." - j.a.
Nice!
I stopped using Amazon when I realized their DRM was even WORSE than iTunes. I built my own cloud...not really all that difficult.
Distributed does not compute to the Central planners and the certificate earning bureaucratic brown nosers who work for them.
Nor even the corporate suits that work under. Hilarious! They can play whack a mole with open source/creative commons folks if they insist . . . and they don't mind being eaten alive by replicants.
Something tells me that centralized/static DNS is going to be bye-bye in the near future.
The corporpulent suits don't exist without the cartelizing bureacracies they create via paid for legislation. There is no such thing as "regulatory capture". Regulators are created to build cartels, barriers to entry and cartel enforcement. Soooooo...they are all cut from the same cloth and come from the same mills and transit from the boardroom to the halls of government seemlessly.
We'll see what kind of monkey wrench ipv6 adoption throws into the works.
I dumped Yahoo last month because they were selling a self-published book by a Pedophile on how to seduce children.
Sex between consenting adults is fine, but selling a book on how to abuse innocent children goes over the line for me - all accounts and business terminated forever with Amazon.
Interesting how WikiLeaks really wasn't under pressure until they started talking about exposing Bank of America malfeasance; that seemed to be the trigger.
You don't think it was their release last week of tons and tons of leaked documents from the US State Department? Instead it had to be the rumor that they had dirt on BAC?
Which, in turn, gives credence to the speculation about just how widespread and interconnected the contagion is. Of course, the information might not be sensational enough to bring banking regimes down, but certainly TPTB are only adding credibility to wikileaks by responding with such force.
Well think about it. Even in recent memory, we've had hank Paulson and Tim Geithner as Treasurers, former GS alumni. In Canada, there's Mark Carny, again GS alumni. GS in particular but I'm sure other former banking personnel occupy government offices. And it's no different I'm sure in other western "democracies". So the big banking influence is very well engrained in governments.
No wonder the preview about a banking leak has created so much furor.
Demonize the leaker who's trying to demonize the bankers who fund the politicians. The question is who deserves the demonization more??
The major players, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, all learned their craft in China, but where dialog begins, propaganda ends. The point of the centrally controlled government has been to keep this dialog (with the American people and their leaders) to a minimum, and to control the debate (scripted town hall meetings, protest zones) the result has been greater dissatisfaction, Tea Party protests. Now the media/slash government will try to sell America on this treason, and defend corporate interests which subsume the conflict, by deferring it to the mantra that government works for the greater good. To that end the media has been officially taken out and executed, as the second most powerful Democrat is effectively removed from office. They can barely report on it, as their own standards of censorship prevent this.
Corporate advertisers, which turned Google from a search engine to the largest Wall Street company, will continue to pass the money back and forth between themselves, reinforcing the notion that they represent the center of power, hastening their demise, as power shifts to other comparable, and less corruptable technologies.
This IS the war we all have been waiting for, forget the silver short squeez forget demonstrations, KEEP WIKILEAKS ALIVE, this is the frontier, this is where we stand, this is where they fall
Every1 out there who is waiting with a loaded .308 for the government to come knocking on the door,
drop your weapon and take to the Internet(support wikileaks) it's the 21st century and and wars are
lost and won on the information highway, don't fight the wrong battle(hint you are gonna loose).
If you want to make it count do all you can to keep wikileaks alive.
World War III will be a global information war with no division between civilian & military participation. - Marshall McLuhan
This is were we NEED to make our stand, if they take away our freedom of speach guns won't matter
If we lose our freedom of speech, that's it. It's lights out.
That said, there is a legitimate security need for secret and top secret information. Here is my proposed solution:
- criminal prosecutions under existing statutes for those who illegally disclosed classified, secret, or top secret information
- criminal prosecution for those who illegally publish said info
- extensive review of policies for who declares info to be classified and by what criteria, making it impossible to (legally) classify information to protect the embarrassed or the guilty (with suitable punishments)
Let's not forget that the goal is not to see the US government overthrown violently, nor the US destroyed in war! Right, we all agree?
First, let me congradulate Reggie on another magnificent piece of work!
I also want to echo the sentiment that sometimes governments do have a need to keep certain information quiet. But governments have interests to protect and often their not the peoples' interests as one might be lead to believe national ideals and eloquent words.
WikiLeaks serves a legitimate purpose because governments, corporations, etc. cover up the embarrasing and even illegal activities undertaken by themselves and their minions . They also like to cover up the identities of those who really have influence with them.
Whether one changes the policies about secret or top secret information, it's really not in their interests to tighten it up so that they are limited in what they can so classify. Perhaps it's always been this way, but nowadays anyway governments are tools of corporate (and mostly bbanking) interests. The system would have to change at a very fundamental structural level for any such policy change to have any real effect. In fact, policy is useless; it would have to become a matter of legislation. But alas, I don't see any such fundamental structural change on the horizon.
While the US has been the world's dominant power for the last century or so, China and perhaps India are clearly the dominant emerging powers. So it's easy to understand why WikiLeaks has focused on the US, government and corporate sectors. But perhaps some more focus should be put on China and India as I'm sure their governments and corporations and other power brokers work similarly.
If as JulianAssange asserts about total transparency is good for the US, it's good for Chaina and India too; what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Bearster:
There are existing laws that have been broken. No need for more laws.
Those in trust who release secret information are traitors.
Non US residents/citizens can not be prosecuted and should not be.
The US can only try to prosecute them by declaration of an enemy combatant and other governments have to cooperate in arresting them.
Governments are snookered.
"Those in trust who release secret information are traitors."
O of K do you really believe that?
Wrong, disagree. We all know perfectly well that the people who perform those functions can't be sanely trusted.
Again: Wrong.
Let me be clear Bob.
We all agree that we do not want the US government to be overthrown violently, and/or the US to be destroyed in war. Right? Right?!?
OOoops, misfired on your actual question!
I'd like to see the US Goverment radically reorganized by safe and peaceful means. I hope honesty about its dealings--whether forced or not--does not doom that proposition.
If it did, one would have to question one's moral compass, both individual and collective.
I agree. We need radical changes. But I hope to the gods that it is a peaceful process involving new ideas and new leaders who emerge and a change in the culture of victim/entitlement and envy we have today.
Otherwise, as I said above, it's lights out--as in a new dark age.
The debt money system depends upon real victims and a steadily raging epidemic of both greed and envy to keep the slavery going.
Gimme my greenbacks and perhaps we can make a deal.
What would be the best way for one to make public dirt regarding Amazon? I imagine there is plenty out there.
Boycott Amazon.
Boycott Paypal.
i wouldn't be supprised if the people donating to WikiLeaks get hauled on charged of funding a terrorist organization soon.
Done. Hated PayPal from Day 1 anyway.
Paypal is among the electronic means of donating to ZH...
+1000
take a bow reggie.
+1000
take a bow reggie.
Can't they just permanently tattoo 666 to our foreheads and get it over with?
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that electrician obviously needs more paperwork and timetracking processes added to his workday if he has any time to do this wastefull fancy
Wow. Spoken just like George Soros.
Are you a sociopath too?
Breathtakingly beautiful pics--thanks.
you are welcome, i thought they were stunning.
the power of the atmosphere!
When good men stand, you stand TALL, Reggie. Deeply appreciated.
I love you Reggie. You are a good man.
so how soon are we going to hear about some trumped up sex charges on Reggie??
No hottubbing for you Reggie.
Freedom Is Slavery
Ignorance Is Strength
-George Orwell, 1984
Debt Is Money
Saving Is Squander
Central Governments Give 'Rights'
-several ZH readers, 2010
What secure network do the Spanish Air Traffic Controllers use?
Good point that censoring populorizes. Agreed; Orwellian state. The people are free to be slaves, and only slaves.
I used to use PayPal from time to time for internet orders of goods but not no more. Canceled the account this morning. I have never used Amazon just on GP because of what a collossal dildoe Bezos was and is.
ZeroHedge uses paypal with its donations button
I recently cancelled my PayPal account as well.
It's amazing how far governments are going to crush Wikileaks. I can't understand how anyone can support their efforts.
paypal WAS a revolution in commerce but got whipped years ago... it's a perfect reminder of what government control will do when it is threatened