Emergency Plans? What if... - Democratic Underground

JuniperLea

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Mon Jan-09-06 01:06 PM
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Emergency Plans? What if...

this site gets shut down? How would we communicate and keep informed?

Ok, maybe my tinfoil hat is on too tight, but after the intermittent problems I had getting the pages here to load this morning, and the ensuing paranoia I experienced, I started thinking that maybe we need emergency plans.

Why does Bush hate the Internets?

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SharonRB

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Mon Jan-09-06 01:07 PM
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1. It was really, really slow this morning

I thought maybe it was just me. Seems to be working fine now. Occasionally there are server issues and it slows down for a while.

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JuniperLea

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Mon Jan-09-06 01:09 PM
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I'm thinking of problems

along the lines of a certain Chimpy McChimpster who might hate our freedoms and somehow shut the place down...

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InsultComicDog

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Mon Jan-09-06 01:09 PM
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3. Enjoy our freedom

...while we still have any...

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SharonRB

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Mon Jan-09-06 01:16 PM
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6. I knew what you meant

I think it's been discussed here before, but I don't remember if there was a plan.

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InsultComicDog

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Mon Jan-09-06 01:09 PM
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2. There's always the blogs

...DailyKos, firedoglake, eschaton... hundreds more...

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JuniperLea

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Mon Jan-09-06 01:10 PM
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4. If Chimpy had us shut down...

I'm sure the whole lot would disappear.

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InsultComicDog

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Mon Jan-09-06 01:50 PM
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7. Easier said than done

The Internet is a tough beast to tame

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Tace

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Mon Jan-09-06 01:13 PM
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5. A Mirror Server In Another Country Might Help

But that costs money, and I don't understand the technicalities enough to know if that would be a full-proof solution. One thing is that the U.S. government can target specific sites, but it is very unlikely that they would shut all the internets down permanently -- commerce depends too much these days on the internets.

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