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The VoxAnon IRC Network hosts a new The Pirate Bay proxy

VoxAnon believes in Freedom of Speech.

Enshrined in our constitution is the principle of promoting freedom of speech above all else. It is freedom of speech which allowed the Arab Spring to take place. It is freedom of speech which allowed the Occupy movement to flourish. Crucially, it is also freedom of speech which allows people living in oppressed nations to educate themselves, instead of being educated subject to what information their oppressors choose to allow them access to.

Over the last several years, the government, under the guise of protecting artists and actors, has attempted to drastically curtail the concept of internet freedom. From SOPA to PIPA, from Hadopi to ACTA, governments worldwide are conspiring every day to limit our access to information, and to limit our ability to freely and fully speak our minds. Their motives for this should be obvious. They have seen the devastating effect of free speech on oppressive regimes in other parts of the world, and they are terrified that their own established power may be next in the firing line.

To that end, they have joined forced with the media industry – an industry which is being undeniably damaged by the internet, but damaged through the industry’s own short sightedness rather than by external forces – to push through laws which allow them to choose what type, and where, certain speech is acceptable. The unprecedented move towards a closed, centrally controlled internet system which we have seen in recent years is the panicked reaction of an unholy alliance acting with feigned solidarity, but with entirely different motivations. The media industry wishes to avoid evolving, and to cling to an outdated business model which is simply no longer viable. The political establishment wishes to avoid the challenge to its power, and indeed to its very existence, that a well educated population with the freedom to express itself without reservation poses.

VoxAnon believes fundamentally that expression and information should be free. We cannot and will not sit idly by and watch the greatest achievement mankind has made in recent history – the potentially for a global, interconnected network of people free to collaborate together and share ideas without interference – be destroyed by corrupt and misguided power structure which refuse to accept that their era is at an end.

One of the front lines in the battle for freedom of the internet has been The Pirate Bay and its torrent tracker. Notwithstanding the ambiguity attached to the question of TPB’s liability – no illegal content whatsoever is actually stored on any TPB server – we see attempts to censor and restrict access to this website as no better than a hypothetical attempt to prevent the general public from reading a certain newspaper. Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right, and we cannot allow it to be in any way restricted, watered down, or subject to the whims of the powerful.

As the Pirate Bay has now been blocked in may nations, either through state level internet filters or through orders forcing internet service providers to accept responsibility for babysitting their customers, we have come to realize that drastic action is now needed. Freedom of speech must prevail. Freedom of information must prevail. To that end, we have established a mirror of the Pirate Bay here on voxanon. It is located at tpb.voxanon.org. It is not subject to any current filtering or government restriction.

signed, VoxAnon Staff