"Your Rights Online: Contrabandwidth
Censorship
Posted by timothy on Sunday March 20, @01:02PM
tcd004 writes "Kate Palmer writes in Foreign Policy Magazine that an international black market for Internet access has arisen in many authoritarian countries who keep their populations offline. Savvy black marketers in cybercafes, universities, private homes, and elsewhere are exploiting technological loopholes to circumvent government filters and charge fees for access. According to OpenNet Initiative, a nonprofit that tracks banned sites, visiting a single website in Saudi Arabia can cost anywhere from $26 to $67. And as censorship spreads, the prices are only going up." It's just a few paragraphs, but thought provoking."

I think it’s time to put the question to you directly. Who out there will make this pledge:

If the FEC makes rules that limit my First Amendment right to express my opinion on core political issues, I will not obey those rules.

I'll agree to that. I'll go one step further.

If the FEC makes rules that limit my Constitutionally guaranteed Right to Free Speech, I will not only not obey the rules, and I will continue to blog the same way, and will spam John MaCain and Russel Feingold's websites, as well as any other politician that backs those un-Constitutional rules. F#ck 'em.

Here is the list so far of those who have responded to Patterico."

(Apologies for being techno-illiterate about trackbacks... i would have used that if i could figure it out...