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      There is no evil under the Sun that has not been committed by man.

      As a species we are 100,000 years old but we are only just barely out of the dark ages.

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        firstly, 300,000 years

        secondly, just because someone has struck the flint does not mean the kindling has caught. Do not mistake intelligence for wisdom.

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      Utah: Wear our special underwear, pay our special sky daddy his tithe, obey unquestionably, and go fuck yourselves.

      Mormans are the Scientologists of the boomers.

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    Is there a banned book torrent that folks can seed?

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      I imagine it would be possible to set up like a kiwix server with text and PDF files of these books downloaded from Gutenberg, using only of course public domain copies, and then set up a QR code that would allow someone passing by to pair with your kiwix server, download those books and then have their own copy of them.

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      Books are small files which aren’t big enough for torrents to be useful. Go ahead and look on z-lib, which has whatever book you could possibly want available for direct download

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        I was thinking of a large curated torrent, every time the a book gets banned it gets added to the torrent, one stop shop to fight modern book burning

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        P2p protocols like BitTorrent are useful because they are decentralized and very very hard to control by authority.

        Shutting down one or a cluster of servers owned by one person is easier than chasing after 10,000 people in 100 different countries.