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Bernardo de La Paz

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10. A gangster web is not resistance bc it will attract more surveillance, not less & attract harsher crackdowns
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 06:54 PM
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There are many ways to resist and organize that have no need for association with corners of the dirty dark web. "Well Mr and Ms General Populace, after all, they were organizing on the dark web, on an app that allows migrant traffickers and money launderers" (whatever "OG" dark web was used)

One of the best is in person meetups at demonstrations for an example. Saturday, October 18, for example.

I am tut-tutting people for hare-brained ill-considered schemes. If you want to get into really serious resistance look into cell structure such as Adam Selene had. There are many variations on that and on the networking involved, some involving networks of technology and others having nothing to do with technology.

"If the flower pot is moved to the left ...."

If there are any well thought out proposals, a good way would be share by DU mail with a few people to refine it, and then approach Elad and EarlG with it. Nobody put the onus on them. Top down community organizing can coexist very healthily and efficiently with bottom-up organizing and sideways organizing. By mentioning our two benefactors, I'm urging cooperation and coordination. But, for some reason, you viewed it as authoritarian.

Re tut-tutting, you have already written off E & E plans as "moot".

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Should DU start a Hyphanet site? [View all] sir pball Thursday OP
STOP! elleng Thursday #1
Stop what? sir pball Thursday #2
The more a "possibility" is noisily bruted about, the more possible it gets. Do you want that? Bernardo de La Paz Thursday #4
Any backup plan they have will be moot intheflow Thursday #8
A gangster web is not resistance bc it will attract more surveillance, not less & attract harsher crackdowns Bernardo de La Paz Thursday #10
I haven't written anything off as moot. intheflow Thursday #13
Post #8 you wrote "Any backup plan they have will be moot" Bernardo de La Paz Thursday #14
Never heard of it. Must be enormously popular, known to all DU members except me, so everyone can find it. Bernardo de La Paz Thursday #3
It's the ultimate Dark Web. sir pball Thursday #5
If you can join it but you think Patel or Blondi can't surveil it, you are indulging in fantasies Bernardo de La Paz Thursday #6
C'mon. intheflow Thursday #9
I am well aware of "OG" for years. It is a disgusting homage to criminals from early days of rap and such. Bernardo de La Paz Thursday #11
My point about surveilance has not made an impression on you Bernardo de La Paz Thursday #12
They can surveil it, but that's all they can do. sir pball Thursday #15
Users leave clues in their content. And comprehensive surveillance of internet onramps would be very revealing. . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Thursday #16
Clearly you aren't familiar with the network. sir pball Thursday #17
If users can easily talk to each other, then some are talking to bots or agents, particularly on the dark web. Bernardo de La Paz Thursday #18
Users can talk fairly easily, but they retain anonymity. sir pball Thursday #19
If content is put up to the cloud it can be analyzed. If it is destined to your favorite dark web Bernardo de La Paz Thursday #20
It's not in the cloud. sir pball Thursday #21
NSA knows more about DSA than we ever will. Plus they have no shortage of compute power. Bernardo de La Paz Thursday #22
As a programmer, you should know how Freenet works. sir pball Thursday #23
I'll take a look. usonian Thursday #7
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