Indymedia Seizures: The Empires Strike Back

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see http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19107 for the full article, also the discussion at http://slashdot.org

The empires strike back

By Wendy M. Grossman: Friday 15 October 2004, 12:26

BACK WHEN the Internet was young – oh, say, eight years ago – there was a school of thought that held that cyberspace was its own sovereign nation.
For one thing, "The Net perceives censorship as damage, and routes around it."
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Maybe it's time to change that into, "Governments perceive the Internet as damage, and gang up on it."