{"id":182455,"date":"2015-09-17T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/09\/17\/the-good-guys-win\/"},"modified":"2015-09-17T19:29:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T00:29:00","slug":"the-good-guys-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/09\/17\/the-good-guys-win\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Guy&#8217;s Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I noted how <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2015\/09\/live-in-obedient-fear-citizen.html\">law enforcement came down on a New Hampshire library for operating a TOR node<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we earn that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concordmonitor.com\/news\/nation\/world\/18626620-95\/library-to-keep-backing-anonymous-network\">the West Lebanon library told the US state security apparatus to go pound sand<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Kilton Public Library in West Lebanon will reactivate its piece of the anonymous internet browsing network Tor, despite law enforcement\u2019s concerns that the network might be used for criminal activities.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Lebanon Library Board of Trustees let stand its unanimous June decision to devote some of the library\u2019s excess bandwidth to a node, or \u201crelay,\u201d for Tor, after a full room of about 50 residents and other interested members of the public expressed their support for Lebanon\u2019s participation in the system at a meeting Tuesday night.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWith any freedom there is risk,\u201d library board Chairman Francis Oscadal said. \u201cIt came to me that I could vote in favor of the good . . . or I could vote against the bad.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI\u2019d rather vote for the good because there is value to this.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haz a happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I noted how law enforcement came down on a New Hampshire library for operating a TOR node. Today, we earn that the West Lebanon library told the US state security apparatus to go pound sand: The Kilton Public Library in West Lebanon will reactivate its piece of the anonymous internet browsing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,969,1041,1066,1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-evil","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-privacy","category-secrecy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}