What say ye?? :From: Zimm2@gnn.com (Zimm2) :Newsgroups: alt.security.pgp :Subject: Cypherpunks engaged in censorship? :Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 08:39:50 : :It has come to my attention that Cypherpunks no longer allows users of :Microsoft browsers to access their archives. : :Is it contradictory for an organization who proclaims an interest in the free :exchange of ideas through the mechanism of the Internet to limit the exchange :of ideas using an individual's software decisions as the criteria? : :Are issues of annonymity and privacy and the encouragement of private use of :powerful encryption and remailer tools secondary to and less important than a :crusade against a software manufacturer? : :Should corporate users of the Internet or individuals unable to access the :Internet through any other means than corporate or public computers be denied :access to information because the computer owner insists on a particular, and :freely chosen software package? : :Will the Internet continue in the direction of propagating propaganda or will :the original rule of releasing all information to the public and letting the :public decide be the rule of the Internet? : :I, of course, know my own feelings on these issues but want to know how far :out of the pale I am. :