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Journal Journal: Help needed conserving the knowledge of the 1840's

Journal by fritsd

Most of you have probably heard of project Gutenberg: preserving texts that are finally in the public domain for our common heritage.
A spin-off project is PGDP: Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders (http://www.pgdp.net/c).
It allows you to use a convenient web interface to proofread one page at a time.

At the moment, the queue for new, freshly OCR-ed books (called "P1" queue) contains the following 1342 page english book:

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Comment Re:OK folks... you know what to do... (Score 2, Informative) 650

by clonebarkins (#11106686) Attached to: USPS Service Kiosks Taking Pictures of Customers

What can they do??? You have a right to wear a party mask in public??? surely you have.. or will they make that illegal too.

No, according to two recent cases, you do not have a right to public anonymity. Cf. Hiibel v.Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada and Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan v. Kelly (the second of which specifically points to the case of wearing masks in public).

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