Re: [jox] 2010 Christmas Memo
- From: Mathieu ONeil <mathieu.oneil anu.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:28:50 +0100
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Hi Graham
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From: graham <graham theseamans.net>
Date: Thursday, December 16, 2010 3:18 pm
Subject: Re: [jox] 2010 Christmas Memo
To: journal oekonux.org
Hi Matthieu
Nice job on the website: both presentable and comprehensible :-)
Sorray about the formatting below; my thunderbird is struggling to
digest Mathieu's (openoffice?) output..
Um, yes copied from open office...
On 12/16/10 10:31, Mathieu ONeil wrote:
1_2 Submissions
-StefanMn and StefanMz's submission is ongoing,
but I have not heard from the authors as to how they wish to
approach the three reviewer's recommendations.
-Graham Seaman was interested in submitting something but has
not done so yet.
It's on the topic of the four freedoms of software and the five
laws of
library science, as being a distinctive new type of human right,
linkedto the old ones, but solidary rather than individual.
I did write something but wasn't happy with it, and wanted a bit of
editorial input, so I showed it to non-oekonux acquaintances. The
response was that it was too long, too unstructured, and didn't
have a
clear target audience - all of which I agreed with - so I
started to
pull it into 2 separate essays, one of which overlaps a little with
Gabriella's work so probably makes more sense here, but will
take longer.
If anyone would be prepared to give me editorial suggestions I'd be
happy to send them the original, on the understanding it's not for
publishing because it's too rambling. But working on someone else's
ramblings is probably not anyone's idea of fun ;-)
If you could try to do a summary - just the essential points - that is always useful to figure out what you really want to get across. I'd be happy to look at that, take it from there? You could try submitting this to the list as well.
OK, now off-topic (and maybe should be copied/moved to the
oekonux list/)
ps. Like many of you I suppose I have been
following the efforts to shut down Wikileaks and the response of
the (mainly Western) “free Internet”.
Do you have any evidence for this 'mainly western' free
internet? Are
you counterposing China to the rest, or... There is certainly a
responsefrom both India and South America, including active
involvement in
ensuring the survival of the main files. The Bolivian government
has a
wikileaks mirror up too; if anything I'd see this as one of the most
globally unifying struggles yet, Li Xaobo and Assange being
mentioned in
the same contexts.
I was thinking of the various maps of where the mirrors are; mostly in Europe in the ones I saw..
When added to the ever-spreading Facebook identity-
authentication tentacles, these control efforts
raise some serious concerns about the direction of the network...
My hosting provider instructed me to close my mirror on grounds
of the
commercial problems that would be caused by a DDOS attack (there
is an
ongoing rotating DDOS-attack on all listed mirrors, but not that
highlypowered). It's now back up on sufferance, but clearly
won't last against
the slightest pressure. It struck me that one place that mirrors would
be less vulnerable to this combined commercial/political
pressure would
be universities: especially any university teaching courses
related to
academic freedom, human rights, etc. Has that happened?
Don't know, but it would be interesting to find out... How to do it?
I agree with the conclusion of
http://cryptome.org/0003/wikileaks-six.htm which is
also reframed by
http://www.hastac.org/blogs/nknouf/wikileaks-broadcast-internet-
and-importance-new-media-assemblages
Of course, apart from agreeing in principle that more
attention needs to be paid to
safeguarding the physical infrastructure, I dont have any
precise or
concrete ideas as to what
should be done, and I can only appeal to others' suggestions or
refer to
the ongoing discussion
on “alternative email infrastructure” on the P2P foundation
list...
http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2010-December/subject.html
What about the suggestions for an alternate/parallel DNS system?
eg http://www.itworld.com/legal/129947/net-censorship-dns-
alternativebut discussions popping up everywhere.
Hysterical/impossibleoverreaction, or an achievable goal?
Yes, I saw those too... Part of the mix, for sure.
I'd be interested in finding out what hardware and software maps are out there...
cheers,
Mathieu
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