Have you set up a tor relay lately?
Aug 21st, 2009 by james
Steven King once gave a lecture at Virginia Beach titled, “Banned Books and Other Concerns”, where he urges his listeners “as soon as that book is gone from the library, do not walk — run to your nearest public library or bookseller and find out what your elders don’t want you to know, because that’s what you need to know!”
While King specifically refers to book censorship his quote is more true of information censorship in general. If there is something your government doesn’t want you to know, that is exactly what you need to know. There are algorithms, techniques and research that I’m not supposed to share with my students because an argument could be made that such information might violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. While legislators and industry lawyers use terms like “anti-circumvention software” all of these things reduce to words and ideas. Words and ideas you are not allowed to have.
Ironically, all of Steven King’s books that are available for the Kindle are “protected” by Digital Rights Management (DRM) software. I’d love to tell you how that works but I might get arrested.