From: IN%"tcmay@got.net" 2-SEP-1996 05:36:20.36

No self-respecting Cypherpunk thinks the Antitrust Act and related acts are worthy of enforcement.

(Think of how the technology we support will tend to allow new avenues for price collusion, interlocking directorates, new forms of business combines, unreadable secure communications with foreign competitors, and so on, all things the Antitrust regulators are already growing worried about.)

There's a difference between thinking something shouldn't be enforced (e.g., drug laws for adults) and thinking that other things - such as privacy and free speech - are more important than fully effective enforcement of something (anti-terrorism measures, AntiTrust Act, etcetera). I don't think that transparent houses, as Perry put it, should be required to prevent murders - but I don't approve of murders either. It's a problem with means, not ends. -Allen