More disturbing to me recently has been the steady increase in subscribers to this list who don't seem to value free speech very highly, who write of their own nation's censorship as valiant efforts to protect citizen-units from foreign devils, and, even more shockingly, from supposed defenders of electronic freedom who are now talking about the need for limits on anonymity.
I too have noticed this, but we must remember that although we are the people who see the tyranny of censorship etc. all to clearly we are in a very small minority, the majority of people do not support censorship because they have made a reasoned judgement, the either support it because they are too lazy to do anytthing, too shit scared of the government if they do, or they just do not take the time to understand the issues and so support the common view, there is also the case that many people "go with the majority", because they do not want to appear different, and the media has so demonized free speech and liberty advocated that to associate yourself with them now is equivalent to telling people you are a rampant sexually deprived paedophile in an anorak. Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk Http://www.fatmans.demon.co.uk/crypt/ "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey" -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6 mQCNAjH9j+cAAAEEAMBvREiQR0ot9dFCO0TiSCSunAYLv2g1Bc6I3bz8FzKXNH53 6mieJf/W4rD+CxJpT0q9RQaaoRtkHJLwbjfK2il3D7mEahMAyqvF/xRJNqkXfhM3 sRJM0Jh43l+W0M5vwokbEbk25/bxWWGspTsLD3YHbzKnG6pOcL5OPIRbv66xAAUR tCdQYXVsIEJyYWRsZXkgPHBhdWxAZmF0bWFucy5kZW1vbi5jby51az4= =riHc -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----