Canadian court orders release of forum data (Free Dominion)

HotAir ^

[an amused spectator]

to defend someone’s ‘right’ to anonymous freedom of speech is something else entirely. i’m not really sure how i feel about that...

To be succinct:

Rich, powerful people will be the only ones with "free speech".

Open your peasant yap - you'll have an expensive lawsuit shoved down it. Or the ones with the ultimate blank checkbook will come after you - the government.

People don't seem to understand that the Founders didn't have or envision a government with an unlimited budget for "rules enforcement".

We've inherited the traditional respect for government operations, but often fail to examine what's really going on.

Sometimes, government operatives don't do what's "right". That's when the blank checkbook becomes a problem.

[Bobalu]

Just post using TOR.
Takes just a few minutes to install the Vidalia package and the TOR button for the browser. Traffic is encrypted from your browser through many servers until the last hop...which for me right now is a PC in Europe.
I rarely use it except to browse democraticunderground
and to post images on tinypic.

My IP right now is 80.77.80.23

Whois lookup lists this for my IP

OrgName: RIPE Network Coordination Centre
OrgID: RIPE
Address: P.O. Box 10096
City: Amsterdam
StateProv:
PostalCode: 1001EB
Country: NL

ReferralServer: whois://whois.ripe.net:43

NetRange: 80.0.0.0 - 80.255.255.255
CIDR: 80.0.0.0/8
NetName: 80-RIPE
NetHandle: NET-80-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: Allocated to RIPE NCC
NameServer: NS-PRI.RIPE.NET
NameServer: NS3.NIC.FR
NameServer: SUNIC.SUNET.SE
NameServer: NS-EXT.ISC.ORG
NameServer: SEC1.APNIC.NET
NameServer: SEC3.APNIC.NET
NameServer: TINNIE.ARIN.NET
Comment: These addresses have been further assigned to users in
Comment: the RIPE NCC region. Contact information can be found in
Comment: the RIPE database at http://www.ripe.net/whois
RegDate:
Updated: 2005-07-27

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% Information related to ‘80.77.80.0 - 80.77.80.255’

inetnum: 80.77.80.0 - 80.77.80.255
netname: UAONLINE-1
descr: ipipe network
country: GB
admin-c: MS9776-ripe
tech-c: VK1045-ripe
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: uaonline
mnt-domains: uaonline
source: RIPE # Filtered

person: Soldatov Maxim
address: Marylebone high street 78
address: W1U 5AP London
phone: +380 50 4985406
e-mail: makc@ipipe.net
org: ORG-RIBC1-RIPE
nic-hdl: MS9776-ripe
mnt-by: uaonline
source: RIPE # Filtered

person: Vladimir Klenov
address: London, United Kingdom
phone: +380 50 4985406
e-mail: maple@ipipe.net
nic-hdl: VK1045-ripe
mnt-by: uaonline
source: RIPE # Filtered

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