On Feb 18, 1996 19:27:04, 'frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)' wrote:
A local TV station has asked me for an interview, after I sent a graphic of a mono-digital hand gesture with the phrase "censor this!" to the Prez, Veep, and the area congresscritters (cc'd to 2 TV stations and a radio station), accompanied by a 'confession' and demand for swift prosecution.
Anyone got any nifty sound bites I can try to toss in?
I do not think that sound bites are the way to deal with these complex issues. "Sound bites," (a.k.a. bumper stickers, advertising jingles, or more accurately "magical thinking") contribute to the problem where emotionally-charged issues are able to bypass the critical facilities. So many of the attacks on crypto and the net are based exactly on sound bites around the "Four Horsemen" coupled with magical incantations on simple ways to defeat the problem. One does not fight magic with magic but with science; one does not fight bad hysteria with good hysteria but with adult thinking. --tallpaul