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Copyright
Material published here is covered by fair use provisions for criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research and do not seek to profit from it. All of the books uploaded are assumed to be in the public-domain as they were found on public websites and sources, the vast majority taken mostly from, but not limited-to The Internet Archive.
Please check also with your World Copyright Length for your country before downloading any material. For books still-in-copyright, no commercial use should be made from any files without the express approval of the copyright holder.
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DMCA
To the best of our knowledge all of the copyrighted material available on this website is in the public domain. If any mistake has been made or the presumption of the content being in the public domain is invalid, please notify us immediately with evidence of possession of the copyright and the disputed content will be removed in order to correct the error - and if a link is also provided - the link to where the content can be officially viewed online or purchased.
Contact
About samisdat
samisdat.in is a home for samizdat, preserving and archiving research, materials and publications - especially books - which are either out-of-print, out-of-copyright, no-longer available or very difficult to find, with a view to saving content from the memory hole. samisdat.in was created by independent individuals privately concerned about the creeping censorship on popular social media and website platforms.
The name samisdat.in was chosen in tribute to the now defunct Samisdat Publishing Company which did much to bring truth to the world through its owner the late Ernst Zündel, but this project and website has no connection or affiliation, direct nor indirect with Samisdat Publishers or the family of Ernst Zündel.
Any materials uploaded to this website are not necessarily endorsements of the content contained within - it is made available here primarily because it is material that is often difficult to obtain and relevant to researchers.
Motivations
On the gulag of social-media it may seem like a big free-for-all but people are actually scared to say what they really think, they are afraid, even if it's objective truth because within the walled-gardens of the big-players (google, facebook, twitter etc) there are rules of engagement and the right to free-speech and expression (UN: Universal Declaration of Human Rights) just isn't one of them ('rights' are actually privileges and demands which may be granted by governments, varying by geographic location in the UN paradigm!). So that's this website was created.
- Concern with preserving important material from websites whose important content is potentially at risk-of-loss - for example noticed previously-available books going missing from The Internet Archive - and it causes neither harm nor loss to replicate such content here.
- Care deeply about critical-thinking and establishing the objective truth regarding the world, the human condition, and shared-history of humanity and hope to provide an alternative resource to established websites.
- Firmly believe that the truth stands on its own and requires no man-made laws to protect it from scrutiny or investigation.
- Not to simply re-upload files - take care to manually check and correct each and every file's metadata, and where possible try to compress the files to reduce their size and also perform additional tasks, such as 'linearizing' PDFs to make them load-faster over the internet.
Driven by Curiosity!
- What is history?
- Who decides what is history
- Who writes & disseminates history?
- How does a reader/writer avoid bias, pushing an agenda & establish objective truth about history?
- How do we determine whether evidence is authentic or not?
- Can anyone have a monopoly on truth?
- How do we deal with new evidence?
- What do we do when uncomfortable truth is revealed into the public domain, e.g. Freedom of Information Act or 'leaks'?
- What about evidence that cannot been refuted?
- Why do people lie to support an agenda?
- Can people be hypnotised/brainwashed?
- Why is publishing suppressed or outright banned?
- Which books are banned the most?
- Which topics are banned the most?
- When is asking questions forbidden?
- Which regimes have sought to ban publishing alternatives to official narratives?
- Why are books banned?
- Who decides what to ban?
- Why do we have these "universal human rights" and why were clauses inserted to override them?
- Do we have these rights morally regardless of man-made laws?
Who
Ordinary living flesh and blood non 'corporate' 'persons' with an interest and passion for finding stuff out and why things are the way that they are in this world. Private individual, independent people experiencing reality, ready to formulate experience and share it. We neither claim nor speak for any group, only speak for ourselves. People who claim a right to speak on behalf of others or put themselves as a representative of a grouping of people should be carefully observed and scrutinized in their words, actions and behaviours.
On Disagreements
If you do wish to contest our content please disagree and argue clearly and don't resort to tired-old tropes based on Godwin's Law! We're not making this site for any kind of fame and misfortune.
This will not satisfy those who are unable to process this work, so before rushing to attack, please understand name-calling, swearing, labelling, snarky 'jokes' and smearing people with untruths then tagging/retweeting to get more people to send targeted abuse and so forth at people is not grown-up and it's not cool. If you can't engage with us in a civil manner, please just block/ignore us, go to another website, or just do not read-on, please do not harass us and respect our God-given Natural Law human-right to free thought, expression and speech.
