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posted by martyb on Sunday September 20 2015, @10:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the Streisand-Effect-is-Effective-Against-DHS dept.

El Reg reports

A dozen libraries across the US have asked for details on how to host Tor exit nodes following a decision by the small town of Lebanon, New Hampshire, to [forgo] police warnings.

Following a decision by the library's board of trustees earlier this week to put the exit node back online, the founder of the Library Freedom Project, Alison Macrina, said that she had heard from a number of other libraries interested in hosting tor nodes.

"Between libraries and community leaders around the country, we've heard from probably about a dozen who are interested in joining this", she told Motherboard.

One of those people was present at the board meeting, having driven two hours to attend. As a library trustee at nearby Reading, she revealed that it was going to have its own meeting on the issue next month.

[...] Macrina now says that the DHS' efforts have put her project on the map. "This has catalyzed additional libraries and community members", she told Motherboard. "Folks have emailed me saying 'We don't care if it gets shut down, we want to push back against [the DHS]'."

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 21 2015, @12:04AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 21 2015, @12:04AM (#239125)

    > But, I love that librarians, even knowing this, are not being cowed.

    Part of that is because they are organized - the American Library Association. [wikipedia.org] They've got a near militant attitude towards intellectual freedom and then support each other in the fight. If programmers had the same thing H1B would have never even been created.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 21 2015, @02:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 21 2015, @02:48AM (#239177)

    Amen, brother. The answer is Solidarity. [wikipedia.org]

    CAUTION: Everyone brace yourself. gewg_ is about to quote a Conservative.

    extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice and [...] moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. --Barry Goldwater

    -- gewg_