-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Tim May wrote: ...
The reason this is such a hot button for Cypherpunks is that "responsible freedom" and "accountability" are often code words for controlling some very basic freedoms. Placing limits on anonymous speech would involve some very fundamental restrictions on freedoms of various sorts. Even if "safeguards" are built-in, the effect would almost certainly be to illegalize remailers (unless they had "escrow" features!).
Again, and as Tim is aware, this is not the true meaning of the fine old word "escrow," which as we all know involves neutral, trusted third parties. I think that this requires a new term, so I am now proposing one: "GAR -- Government Access to Remailers." In real life, the gar is a fish that lives in great numbers in the Everglades, just west of where I type. They can grow to a very large size. The fossil record indicates that this species has been around, unchanged, since dinosaur times. Keeping the Pinnochio tale in mind, I find it quite fitting that the gar has a *very* long nose in relation to its body. ;)
And a wide array of other freedoms, too numerous for me to write about here.
Indeed. JMR Regards, Jim Ray -- DNRC Minister of Encryption Advocacy "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." -- Benjamin Franklin "As govt.s grow arithmetically, corruption grows exponentially." -- Ray's Law of official corruption. Defeat the Duopoly! Stop the Browne out. Harry Browne for President. Jo Jorgensen for Vice-president. http://www.HarryBrowne96.org/ http://www.twr.com/stbo ___________________________________________________________________ PGP id.E9BD6D35 51 5D A2 C3 92 2C 56 BE 53 2D 9C A1 B3 50 C9 C8 <mailto:liberty@gate.net> http://www.shopmiami.com/prs/jimray ___________________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMi12Nm1lp8bpvW01AQHHRwQAsr2a7rPwC9mfZ/ht2dF1jvRt/yuWJptL Utg1nm0YY5WrbvA12YAmkYBc4P7/xyqEARlIUWK3Z9qhcMFXjfXMRI5IwyfBmXSQ Ilra/XIUd6ES2p9jNupiKDO2yn56bpbubVS/T1QFkjRDgrLuRMEUndhNK8n5pGUA jL2L/IwMVCo= =seP6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----