Samizdata is a British group

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. Founded on 2 November 2001, by Perry de Havilland and originally named ‘

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Samizdata’, it dropped the label due to the reluctance of editors to subscribe to a particular label. Edited by " anarcho-libertarians, tax rebels,

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, and Wildean

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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

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s a day, and "arguably the grandfather of British political blogs." In 2008, ''

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'' labeled it as one of the fifty most powerful blogs in the world.

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