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The Internet Treats Censorship Just Like Any Other Glitch
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The Internet treats censorship just like any other glitch: it routes around
it.
-- John Gilmore, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Related:
Given its constituency, the only thing I expect to be "open" about [the Open Software Foundation] is its mouth.
-- John Gilmore...
Censorship is something [[[[[[ [[[[ I do [[[ like
Internet Traveler... Destination: Electronic Cottage Colony
GNU /gnoo/, not /noo/ 1. [acronym: `GNU's Not Unix!
', see recursive acronym] A Unix-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman &l...
GNU: /gnoo/, *not* /noo/ 1. [acronym: `GNU's Not UNIX!
', see {{recursive acronym}}] A UNIX-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman &l...
FRS // n.,obs. Abbreviation for "Freely Redistributable Software" which entered general use on the Internet in 1995 after years of low-level confusion over what exactly to call software written to be passed around and shared (contending terms including freeware
hareware, and `sourceware' were never universally felt to be satisfactory for various subtle reasons)....
Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...
glitch /glich/ [very common; from German `glitschig' to slip, via Yiddish `glitshen', to slide or skid] 1.
. A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function....
glitch: /glich/ [from German `glitschen' to slip, via Yiddish `glitshen', to slide or skid] 1.
. A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function....