Re: <nettime> spooky silence

[jjf <xdaydreamx@gmx.net>]

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Woa!

May not have know that this happened but it certainly is v. v. spooky. This practice, achieving censorship by threatening somebody's provider, seems to be getting more and more frequent. To all accounts, it is an efficient way to "do business". Scare somebody off with the threat of better-paid lawyers. Etoys and consorts don't even have to get their hands dirty like old microsoft and risk a judge's condemming words. No, a well-phrased email here or a harsh call there and they can sit back and watch people censor THEMSELVES!

Perhaps it is time to wake up to this tactic and start collecting some info about it, where it has happend, what happened etc... Or has somebody done that already? This is surely an issue that affects all (h)activists and therefore one on which we can all agree on.

jjf

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> i find this silence on what happened
> two days ago really spooky, at the limit
> of the soviet censorship...

> everybody knows that the thing, the server
> that hosts this list has been shut down between
> 2am and 3pm of friday 17th.

> everybody knows that this happened because
> high bandwith provider Verio, which supplies
> Thing.net's "backbone" connection,
> has been contacted from etoys corporation,
> because of the virtual sit-in launched
> by the thing and fakeshop in support
> to etoy's fight for the domain.

> everybody knows that the thing has been
> resumed only because hacktivist Ricardo
> Dominguez agreed to remove his domain
> /~rdom from the thing, including the
> home page of the electronic disturbance
> theater.

> this domain is still shut down. massive
> actions of  protest are being organised all
> around the world. but this list continue
> to speaks about barbie dolls and other very
> "high profile issues".

> moreover, according to the NYT report,
> an etoy's spokesman "denied that his group was
> responsible for the sit-in" which would be
> amazing, since etoy is calling for protest,
> solidarity and various actions
> since the beginning of this fight.

> if anyone of etoy is on the list i'd like
> to have an explanation about this statement.

> if anyone has something to hide, it would be
> better that s/h/it speaks immediately, since what
> happened on friday is one of the most illegal
> and arrogant acts that occurred since the born
> of the internet. an act that definitely shows
> the real face of this "democratic" media, and
> of the powerful who rule it.

> we can not agree with the EDT tactics, but
> what happened on friday is on another level,
> is really on another level. if you don't
> understand this, we have already lost.


> best,

> snafu








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