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== Discovery ==On or around Tueday, March 27th, 2007, several people following the Year Zero ARG received an email message indicating it was sent by the "Bureau of Morality", indicating that they had visited websites that--in the world of Year Zero--contained illegal content. The message went on to warn the reader that he or she would be subject to consequences in the future, and referred readers to a web address: [http://www.thepriceoftreason.net www.thepriceoftreason.net].

== Transcription of the eDiscovery=====The USBM E-mail ===

This is a one time warning. Any further attempts to view, consume, or distribute un-american content will result in the loss of citizenship increments and/or the imposition of fines, penalties, or imprisonment.

=== Auto-Response ==='''Discovery:'''

Friends, parents, teachers-anyone can try to shake your belief in America. Traitors and dissidents aren't stupid: some of the things they say can sound very reasonable. But...

== Website Contents ==Accessing the website initially loads a short flash movie which referrs to many factual suspensions of civil liberites that occured during the American Civil War, and then reveals that the responsible party for those suspensions was President Abraham LincolnNumber: [[Year_Zero_Numbers#24.05.01|24. It then proceeds to a page with links to several stories of people of the world of Year Zero, and in a propagandistic way uses them to illustrate the site's main thesis: that there are dire consequences to those who attempt to rebel against the authority in place in the world of Year Zero, in this case, the American government05. 01]]

==Neil Czerno==One of the linked stories, entitled "Background Text: [[Year_Zero_Banned_Media#The_Grapes_of_Wrath|The Slow Slide Into Treason", tells the story Grapes of one Neil Czerno who was ultimately executed. In the story, it is mentioned that he started a website named [[Open Source ResistanceWrath]], which led to the discovery of this currently active website at [http://www.OpenSourceResistance.net www.OpenSourceResistance.net].

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