Timothy C. May says:
Seriously, there is considerable danger that the growing chorus of alarmist nonsense about the Net being used for child porn, for snuff films, for weapons secrets deals, etc., will result in the U.S. Net.Cops linking up with their European and Asian associates.
I was rather amused at the forum given by the New York City Bar Association on Clipper. The FBI representative not only trotted out the four horsemen of the infocalypse -- in order, in a single sentence! -- but also at one point spoke of snuff films. He said, in what I found to be the greatest denial of logical thinking I've seen in years, that he's not ready to give up and say that the genii is out of the bottle -- as though he could put it back by force of will. I spoke with Stuart Baker for a while, during which time he informed me that he didn't think the internet could possibly last.
The recent stuff on "international key escrow," a la the conference last September, is worrisome.
Dorothy Denning is running another such conference soon. Perry