Wendy Grossman explores the implications of the Indymedia server seizure.

[O]ne curious point in all this is that IndyMedia appeared far more decentralized than it was. It’s certainly decentralised in the sense of everyone’s having different theories about what happened based on facts that are not always well communicated from one group to another. But look at the technical infrastructure behind it: more than 40 percent of the collective’s sites were hosted at a single location…

Maybe it’s time to change [the old net saying] into, “Governments perceive the Internet as damage, and gang up on it.”

Grossman wrote net.wars some years back, which was very useful (and taught well, in this blogger’s experience).

Wendy Grossman explores the implications of the Indymedia server seizure.

[O]ne curious point in all this is that IndyMedia appeared far more decentralized than it was. It’s certainly decentralised in the sense of everyone’s having different theories about what happened based on facts that are not always well communicated from one group to another. But look [...]