A Webmaster's 25th Hour

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Interview with Sherman Austin, an anarchist who has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for publishing information on how to make Molotov cocktails and "Drano bombs" on his web site:

http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-5062481.html?tag=fd_lede2_hed

Quote from Austin: "The fact that bomb-making information is readily available on the Internet doesn't concern the feds. If someone were to use a bomb to do something illegal, there's plenty of information out there, including in libraries. The only reason they went after my site is because it was getting more popular and was promoting autonomous organizing. It was promoting not just that, but autonomous thinking--people going out in their local communities and taking the initiative. That started happening. Raisethefist.com wasn't just a Web site but was developing into a direct action network."