if open source could employ the bandwidth and computing powers of the masses, would it change the david vs goliath theme?
its more in the spirit of oss anyway.

all by itself it mights not seem like much but if that selfsustainable minilan were deployed in a school, or an other education center, or a hospital, than it would make a significant difference.

He is a reporter and he went into a conflict zone knowing the risks involved (or so i hope).

and as a reporter in a conflict zone he probably wanted to spread information around, even if it meant for him to risk his life. Is wikipedia really acting in his interest by betraying the very idea of uncensored information flow, a thing he knowingly risked he's life for, assuming that it even going to help hem in any way? debatable...
is an abstract ideal worth a mans life? Only the man himself should decide that! Is wikipedia assuming this authority on his behalf by making an exception? I do think so.

with that being said, the way mass media handles/creates terrorism situation is obscene to put it mildly. the actual "harm" would be done by the fox news and such, because wikipedia istn even supposed to be a news agency?

and i alway thought the theorem meant that you need some sort of observable reality that to build your consistent systen on.

i can not help to notice that this MPs "troubles" with the executive will/could provide the rainbow press with another much valued connection piratespedophiles...

start pirating stuff? we can do something by ignoring bullshit laws and encouraging other to do the same and providing insight into technology and perhapf tor exit nodes? you didn't expect that this problem could be fixed by voting once every couple of years did you?

if there even is something like a worse and less bad part of this horrible story, anyway the worst part is in my opinion the fact that under the german law it is illigal for citizens to disclose those blocklists or parts of that blocklist.
You are apparently expected to trust them not to try anything funny if you believe that! (the gem of that story being the fact that a second instance court ruled it were even illigal to link to site which could in turn link to other "bad" sites.
There was a story about wikileaks story to that account not too long ago (the law wasnt even being passed yet, the fuss was about the australian blocklist!) now imagine/wait for this:

"blogger x" guys i found out that that brand new blocking list of our also includes political and other stuff, get a load of this!
"BKA" (kicks down door) you are not allowed to disclose stuff like that citizen! we'll confiscate your hardware as a start, cya in court!