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commit 9d907824d872b0b82fc4a59781a20494b99519f2
Author: root <root@localhost.(none)>
Date:   Sun Dec 21 07:00:06 2014 +0000

    [motd] thanks bb <3

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@@ -12,3 +12,18 @@ want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific
 and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and
 journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a
 handful of private corporations." - Aaron Swartz
+
+"Ten years ago it would have been infeasible for tens of
+thousands of individuals with no physical connection or
+central leadership to conceive, announce, and implement a
+massive act of civil disobedience against a significant
+Western power, crippling a portion of its online
+infrastructure in the process - and to do all of this in a
+matter of days, and without anyone involved having to contend
+with the tear-gas-and-horseback response with which states
+have traditionally been in the habit of contending with mass
+action. But such a thing as this is happening today, and having
+been done once will almost certainly be done again - repeatedly,
+increasingly, and with potentially significant consequences for
+the nation-state and implications regarding that which will
+perhaps someday come to replace it." - Barrett Brown

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