At 05:45 AM 04/04/2001 -0400, Seth Finkelstein wrote:
Tim May wrote:
I see a newcomer, Seth Finkelstein, harshly criticizing Declan and others. Easy to ignore someone who wasn't even here the day before yesterday.
Point of information: "nonconsentingly delurked" is more accurate than "newcomer".
Seth is a long-term contributor to the Cyberia-L list, which a reasonable number of Cypherpunks also read or at least occasionally post to, including Declan and JYA. He's been a major contributor with The Censorware Project (which I gather is a trying to restart after a previous death-by-infighting that followed a few years of good work) and is strongly in the anti-censorware camp as opposed to the censorware-will-save-us-by-deflecting-worse-forms-of-censorship camp. He does computer consulting (not sure what type), and is one of the technologist/activist types on Cyberia-L rather than one of the lawyers. And yes, as some people have commented, he does flame against Libertarianism, among other things, but he's also a strong supporter of free speech.