Samizdata is a British group
weblog
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. Founded on 2 November 2001 by Perry de Havilland and originally named ‘
Libertarian
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Samizdata’, it dropped the label due to the unhappiness of editors to subscribe to a particular label.
Edited by "
anarcho-libertarians,
tax rebels,
Eurosceptics
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, and
Wildean individualists
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", Samizdata is one of the UK's oldest blogs.
The editors describe Samizdata.net as "a blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective. We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous...".
Samizdata.net - main blog
In 2005, ''The Guardian'' wrote that it was "by some measures the nation's most successful independent blog", with over 15,000 unique visitor
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s a day, and "arguably the grandfather of British political blogs".The Observer
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'' labelled it as one of the fifty most powerful blogs in the world.
References
British political blogs
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