In the wake of all the SmartFilter furor - most notably the blocking of BoingBoing as a "nudity" site by many oppressive countries and corporate servers, when over 95% of their stuff demonstrably isn't nudity - comes proof of what a creative, loving community who isn't afraid to act on their own nifty ideas will do for you:

Introducing: Distributed BoingBoing. This is a bit of fan-written code that anyone can run on their server that effectively mirrors BoingBoing, rerouting it links-n-all through proxy servers, thus handily clearing the SmartFilter net o' totalitarianism.

With so many vastly trafficked commercial sites (CNN, Microsoft, iTunes, etc) this sort of thing could never happen because the helpful coder who dared such a thing would be shunted off to some shadowy corporate Guantanamo for copyright infringement or some other nonsense.

The fact that BoingBoing loudly stands for community sharing, creative commons and user-generated growth has resulted in a live demonstration of the lengths that the company doesn't have to go to to get stuff done. Show your community enough love and they will literally move heaven and earth for you without asking (in this case, creating ways to allow literally whole continents of oppressed people once again access a wrongly-blocked site), often in creative, cool and cheap ways you never would have thought of or had the time/money/energy/priority to develop yourself.

Okay, I'm convinced. Creative Commons mentality r000ls. Where do I go to surrender to our new open-source overlords?