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...DIED. GYULA OBERSOVSZKY, 74, Hungarian poet and journalist who played a leading role in the failed 1956 revolt against Soviet rule; in Budapest. On the second day of the uprising, Obersovszky founded an independent newspaper, Truth, and after the revolt's repression launched a samizdat called We Are Alive. Sentenced to hang for organizing demonstrations against the Red Army, Obersovszky was saved after the intervention of Western intellectuals, including Bertrand Russell...
...implications are profound. Dissidents in totalitarian states could use Freenet to post samizdat that once had to be cautiously hand-circulated. Whistle-blowers could safely bring smoking-gun documents to light. But Freenet could also be put to less high-minded use. Critics say it will be a boon to drug dealers, terrorists and child pornographers. And it poses a new threat to intellectual-property rights. With Napster, at least there's a company to sue and a way to trace individuals who have downloaded CDs. If Freenet catches on, it may be impossible to find anyone to punish...
...David Kennedy/Marjorie Garber/ Barbara Johnson crowd to make cameo appearances at the various social gatherings around which much of the narrative is centered, responding authoritatively to questions such as whether "the dissemination of revolutionary ideas through popular underground art such as pornography is an interesting antecedent to the samizdat publications of (Czechoslovakia)" or engaging in discussions of the validity of meta-Heideggerian semaphorism...
South Central Los Angeles looks a lot like the rest of the city -- smog- filtered sunlight, palm trees, pastel-colored stucco apartments. It doesn't look like a ghetto. The gang writing on cement walls, criminal samizdat that cops read for news of a planned attack with the expert alacrity of CIA cryptologists, is fastidiously printed; it bears little resemblance to the loopy graffiti of New York City...
...essay was widely read in the U.S.S.R. as well -- samizdat was flourishing -- but many people were punished for circulating Reflections. A driver from Dushanbe who had mailed my essay to a friend was sentenced to three years in a labor camp for defaming the Soviet system...