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This incarnation of Nathania was originally hosted on Bluehost and then Hostmonster. After a concerned citizen submitted a report of "adult content", Hostmonster issued a terms of service violation notice on 10 September 2012 noting that the website would be deactivated unless the content were removed within 48 hours. Eventually, Nathania ended up at Dreamhost; like other sites that use Dreamhost's share hosting, Nathania is subject to frequent performance problems, including internal server errors, although as of February 2014, these had become less common. | This incarnation of Nathania was originally hosted on Bluehost and then Hostmonster. After a concerned citizen submitted a report of "adult content", Hostmonster issued a terms of service violation notice on 10 September 2012 noting that the website would be deactivated unless the content were removed within 48 hours. Eventually, Nathania ended up at Dreamhost; like other sites that use Dreamhost's share hosting, Nathania is subject to frequent performance problems, including internal server errors, although as of February 2014, these had become less common. | ||
New prisoner-related content ceased to be added in February 2014, as upon further reflection, Larson considered that his giving in, on 7 December 2012, to pressure to tell the judge what he wanted to hear (viz. that those who communicate with felons in violation of their terms of supervised release are at fault for their own incarceration), rather than taking a principled stand similar to the one Oscar Wilde took while being cross-examined in ''[[wikipedia:Oscar_Wilde#Regina_v._Wilde|Regina v. Wilde]]'', disqualified him from doing further prisoner solidarity work, as it constituted an unforgivable betrayal of the values of integrity and courage required of such a worker. The caving in to the judge's expectations had been influenced by Larson's mother expressing loneliness at his absence, which put Larson in a position of having to choose between standing for his political beliefs or provoking the court to impose a punishment that would cause his family additional suffering. Since, according to Larson's philosophy, liberty is the highest cause that a person can pursue, only the most honorable individuals are deemed fit for the task; and a dishonorable act of such magnitude, even under duress, results in a lifetime ban. | New prisoner-related content ceased to be added in February 2014, as upon further reflection, Larson considered that his giving in, on 7 December 2012, to pressure to tell the judge what he wanted to hear (viz. that those who communicate with felons in violation of their terms of supervised release are at fault for their own incarceration), rather than taking a principled stand similar to the one Oscar Wilde took while being cross-examined in ''[[wikipedia:Oscar_Wilde#Regina_v._Wilde|Regina v. Wilde]]'', disqualified him from doing further prisoner solidarity work, as it constituted an unforgivable betrayal of the values of integrity and courage required of such a worker. The caving in to the judge's expectations had been influenced by Larson's mother expressing loneliness at his absence, which put Larson in a position of having to choose between standing for his political beliefs or provoking the court to impose a punishment that would cause his family additional suffering. Since, according to Larson's philosophy, liberty is the highest cause that a person can pursue, only the most honorable individuals are deemed fit for the task; and a dishonorable act of such magnitude, even under duress, results, according to Larson's personal standards, in a lifetime ban from the most sensitive and important libertarian work, viz. that which involves interaction with persons incarcerated for victimless offenses. However, Larson did not deem it to be violation of those standards to continue operating personal blogs such as Nathania.org, since those are one-person operations that do not involve prisoners, and therefore their administration can be considered a position of lesser responsibility. | ||
Since the fight over pedosexuality is still, in [http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/mirkin_text.htm the terminology of Harris Mirkin], a Phase I struggle, there seemed to be little to gain, politically, by becoming a martyr; but this did not constitute an excuse from duty. In Larson's view, the system is designed to put activists in situations that will essentially induce them to say "[[wikipedia:Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Confession_and_betrayal|Do it to Julia!]]" and thereby make themselves seem unworthy in their own eyes; but it is still the activist's responsibility to resist succumbing to coercion, regardless of punishment, for the greater good of society. According to this view, allocution is often the activist's one chance to speak in court in defense of his ideas and actions, and the whole nature of the situation is to serve as a test of whether he has enough backbone to rise to the occasion when called upon. Vlad Draconis PenDragon (aka Matthew Mercer-Kinser) compared it to a situation of a homeowner's declining to tell the Gestapo about Jews hiding in his attic, but Larson viewed his statement to the court as more analogous to Erwin Schrödinger's 1938 ''[http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Miscellany:Confession_to_the_F%C3%BChrer Confession to the Führer]''. | Since the fight over pedosexuality is still, in [http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/mirkin_text.htm the terminology of Harris Mirkin], a Phase I struggle, there seemed to be little to gain, politically, by becoming a martyr; but this did not constitute an excuse from duty. In Larson's view, the system is designed to put activists in situations that will essentially induce them to say "[[wikipedia:Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Confession_and_betrayal|Do it to Julia!]]" and thereby make themselves seem unworthy in their own eyes; but it is still the activist's responsibility to resist succumbing to coercion, regardless of punishment, for the greater good of society. According to this view, allocution is often the activist's one chance to speak in court in defense of his ideas and actions, and the whole nature of the situation is to serve as a test of whether he has enough backbone to rise to the occasion when called upon. Vlad Draconis PenDragon (aka Matthew Mercer-Kinser) compared it to a situation of a homeowner's declining to tell the Gestapo about Jews hiding in his attic, but Larson viewed his statement to the court as more analogous to Erwin Schrödinger's 1938 ''[http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Miscellany:Confession_to_the_F%C3%BChrer Confession to the Führer]''. | ||