XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: robkelk@deadspam.com   
      
   On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:20:15 -0500, Doug Jacobs    
   wrote:   
      
   >In rec.arts.anime.misc Starcade  wrote:   
      
      
   >The idiots forget why the internet was created in the first place - to   
   >withstand enemy attack, which includes "damaging" the network by cutting   
   >off nodes.  The internet is a self healing system.   
      
   ARPANET is a self-healing system. The commercial 'Net runs on a   
   half-dozen backbones, at most - easy to cripple or destroy.   
      
   The system we use is not redundant the way ARPANET is because redundancy   
   costs money.   
      
   >  Censorship is simply a   
   >form of damage, and will be routed around.   
      
   Only at the expense of dropping or delaying other traffic - which the   
   ISPs won't allow because then they'd have to refund people's money.   
      
      
   >Honestly, once folks start supporting point to point encrypted   
   >connections, that'll be the end of any sort of censorship attempts.   
      
   Netscape supported point to point encrypted connections. Firefox and   
   SeaMonkey still do.   
      
   If anything, censorship attempts have increased since the implementation   
   of point-to-point encryption.   
      
      
   >Oh yeah, as if they'll make encryption illegal...  That'll never happen,   
   >nor is it even possible.   
      
   It's been illegal for decades. You just don't notice because you aren't   
   crossing the US border with it.   
      
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