At 12:53 PM 9/3/96 -0700, Stanton McCandlish wrote:
EFF in generally does not issue extremist position statements, but is careful to examine the risks as well as the benefits, and look for pro-liberty solutions to those risks.
If the right to speak anonymously is an "extremist" position in the eyes of the EFF, then they are no friends of liberty. It is hardly an "extremist" position outside of such countries as Cuba, Iran, or China. It is the overwhelmingly mainstream position, not just among netizens, but when last heard, amongst supreme court judges and ordinary people in the street. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com