samizdata

{{Short description|British group weblog}}

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Samizdataderived from Samizdat, a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR is a British group weblog. Founded on 2 November 2001, by Perry de Havilland and originally named ‘Libertarian Samizdata’, it dropped the label due to the reluctance of editors to subscribe to a particular label.{{cite news |title=The New Commentariat |first=Oliver |last=Burkeman |newspaper=The Guardian |date=17 November 2005 |page=G2:8 }}

Edited by "anarcho-libertarians, tax rebels, Eurosceptics, and Wildean individualists," Samizdata is one of the UK's oldest blogs.{{cite news |title=The World's 50 Most Powerful Blogs |newspaper=The Observer |date=9 March 2008 }} 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.[http://www.samizdata.net/blog/ Samizdata.net - main blog] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060511234406/http://www.samizdata.net/blog/ |date=2006-05-11 }}

In 2005, The Guardian wrote that it was "by some measures the nation's most successful independent blog," with over 15,000 unique visitors a day, and "arguably the grandfather of British political blogs." In 2008, The Observer labeled it as one of the fifty most powerful blogs in the world.{{cite news|author1=Brad|title=Powell update on blogging|url=http://bradburnie.com/blogging/wp42-powell/|access-date=19 September 2015|date=17 June 2015}}