Excellent point and well taken. "Regulations" is misleading; "rules" is a better term. Think the Catholic Church and its historical penchant for excommunication. -Declan On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Duncan Frissell wrote:
At 04:45 AM 11/4/96 -0800, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Libertarianism is not incompatible with strict regulations, as long as the rules violate nobody's rights.
-Declan
Obviously many voluntary religious organizations have quite strict rules for their members and are compatible with libertarianism. Government monopoly regulations that cannot be opted out of are not compatible with libertarianism. Instead of using the loaded term "regulations' it might be better to call things like the rules of the cypherpunk's list "club rules" or protocols.
DCF
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