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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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    Honestly I’d be surprised if they could pull that off, they can’t technically control it unless it’s on their property, so any on private property should be protected by 1A. But if anyone can pull it off, it’s Morons Mormons in Utah, so there’s that…

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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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          Torrents can’t be modified once they are made. Making 1 torrent and adding things to it wouldn’t be possible to do