[48492] in Cypherpunks
new(?) anti-usenet censorship technique?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lasser)
Mon Jan 29 14:21:28 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 14:05:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lasser <jlasser@rwd.goucher.edu>
To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Playing around online today, it occured to me that much of Compu$pend's
subscribers (and many other ISPs, especially smaller ones which might be
subject to governmental pressures) rely largely on people who use chat
modes frequently, often for sex-related chat... they cannot cut off IRC
(for example) without hurting their income substantially.
If someone put up an IRC<->news gateway, with a bot that allowed anyone
on channel to read newsgroups, it'd be virtually impossible to censor;
one could use a variable channel name to increase the difficulty of
censoring it.
Has anyone done this before? Or talked about it?
Jon Lasser
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