At 08:31 PM 11/21/00 -0500, Ray Dillinger wrote:
I have just read his paper on Assassination Politics, at
Basically, assassination is illegal, and the courts will interpret the law in whatever way they need to in order to stop assassinations from happening.
Even if they couldn't find a specific law to charge the operator of an AP server with, or couldn't get a conviction on the laws they'd charged him/her with, they would doubtless issue a court order commanding the operators of the server to cease and desist.
Correct, except that you haven't grasped that it will be impossible to trace anything to anyone. To see this, you need to imagine truly anonymous payment schemes and truly anonymous information publishing. [The latter tech exists, the former has to deal with interfacing with the US dominated financial web, and exchanging ecredits for meatthings. Meat being succeptible to guns & cruise missiles, of course.] Bell's observation is simply: if you have these two (cash & freedom of speech), look at what one could build. And the social implications thereof.