At 11:11 AM -0800 1/6/98, Declan McCullagh wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 11:10:49 -0800 (PST) From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> To: fight-censorship-announce@vorlon.mit.edu Subject: ACM conference on computer-related policy (DC, 5/98)
[The best policy for the Net is probably no policy, or at most a hands-off one. We don't have national "policies" for how we should regulate, for example, newspapers or bookstores, and we don't need such policies for the Net. On universal service, we already have Internet connections that are cheaper than cable TV; on copyright, the safest course is to let federal courts decide; on crypto, most agree that the current "policy" is misguided at best. --Declan]
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ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING (ACM) ANNUAL CONFERENCE
* * * POLICY98 * * * "Shaping Policy in the Information Age"
Washington, DC, Renaissance Hotel May 10-12, 1998 ..
Jeez, don't these Beltway Bandits _ever_ get tired of holding these bullshit little conferences? It seems every month or so there's one of these b.s. things. Must be a way to justify their existence. "Shaping Policy in the Information Age." Give me a break. --Tim May The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^2,976,221 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."