been thinking about this for a few days…
its of course possible for authoritarians to burn books, destroy leaflets and smash printing presses…
but that needs lots of jackbooted heavies, and spies to find and stalk the source and distribution routes of the print media, and vehicles, uniforms and weapons…
But online it only takes a few keypresses by one person with the right access levels on the right network – the subversive message will never get through, or could even be automatically filtered by software which can even handle complicated East Asian languages…or its source can be traced to someones home broadband connection within a few seconds..
net censorship is now becoming trivial and commonplace even in the West, passed off as “workplace e-policy” or “parental controls”.
But..
“standalone media” such as a book/leaflet, or even a CD/DVD or memory chip containing multimedia is far harder to filter and censor, or for cops to make use of unless someones house is raided (which hopefully doesn’t happen that often unless people are careless about drugs…)
you could still use the net to prepare such media, particularly if shared as encrypted fragments of a project between trusted people
TBH stuff like party pics/vids doesn’t even need this level of paranoia, its just a matter of going back to “web 1.0” rather than putting the stuff on bait places like youtube and murdochspace…
what does everyone think? could this be the way forward for stuff such as some party pics and info, a way of clawing back some of the lost freedoms?
