On Monday, July 1, 2002, at 02:23 PM, Anonymous wrote:
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Bear writes:
A few years ago merchants were equally adamant and believed equally in the rightness of maintaining their "right" to not do business with blacks, chicanos, irish, and women. It'll pass as people wake up and smell the coffee. Unfortunately that won't be until after at least a decade of really vicious abuses of private data by merchants who believe in their god-given right to snoop on their customers.
My God, how low the cypherpunk list has sunk. Here we have someone not only demanding that merchants be forced to deal with pseudonymous customers, he invokes civil rights laws to support his argument!
Where's Tim May when we need him?
I'm right here. But you have missed something very important: "Bear" did not write that article for the _Cypherpunks_ list. It was one of many articles cross-posted between the _Cryptography_ list and the _Cypherpunks_ list and even some of Hettinga's many lists. Here are the headers: