Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:59:00 PST Mike Masnick http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101223/12333312397/building-censor-resistant-web.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101223/12333312397/building-censor-resistant-web.shtml decentralized DNS system and now Aaron Swartz is proposing a "censor-resistant web" system that makes use of hashes and authentication certificates. It's an interesting idea, though it does seem like there are a lot of moving parts, which might make it more difficult to implement. Either way, as we've been predicting for a while now, a lot of the events of the past few months have really only served to expose bottleneck intermediaries and to alert people to infrastructure that needs to be more decentralized.

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]]> one-option http://www.techdirt.com/comment_rss.php?sid=20101223/12333312397 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:36:00 PDT Mike Masnick http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091027/0248336688.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091027/0248336688.shtml Michael Scott, we learn about how the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) tried to shut down a blog critical of the group using a trademark claim. While the AFT eventually backed down, after pretty much everyone made it clear that it had no chance to win a trademark claim against a site that was clearly criticizing it, Ron Coleman makes the point that trademark is the "tort of choice for censors." I'd suggest that copyright isn't far behind, but it's really amazing how often trademark holders try to use trademark claims to censor any kind of speech they dislike about their mark. And even if the trademark claim has no chance of winning, it often doesn't matter to those who simply can't afford the time or the money to fight such claims.

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