RE: The bookburning begins...

My favorite sentence from the referenced article is: :"We have to get away from the ethos that knowledge is good, knowledge should be publicly available, that information will liberate us," said University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan."

F. Marc de Piolenc[SMTP:piolenc@mozcom.com] writes:

In another life, I sell technical documents, so I monitor bookseller lists. This could interest cypherpunks.

Presumably, the reports to be destroyed include everything to do with crypto.

If I had the money, I would zip over to the States, visit my favorite depository library (where the librarians know me and are certain to be as disgusted by this as I am) and offer to relieve them of anything that can no longer appear on their shelves. Fill a container with "waste paper and microfilm" and send it over here.

Dream on, Marc...

Marc de Piolenc Philippines

Message: 23 Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 08:21:10 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Grobe To: insider@lists.bookfinder.com Subject: [BI] Goverment asking libraries to destroy government reports

Not only is the government removing much material from its websites it is also asking depository libraries (which are sent government reports free) to remove and destroy many government reports--because of the recent terrorist incidents.

Any comments? Any bookdealers destroying books which they think might be useful to terrorists?

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-111801inform.story

Jonathan Grobe