Re: good news about the EFF...
At 11:23 PM 01/01/95, Aron Freed wrote:
Has anyone seen Monty Python's Life of Brian..... DO I hear a parallelism??? Something to the effect of "The PEople's Judean Front", "The Popular People's Front", and it goes on an on....
HOw about for the modern approach.... CDT, EFF, CPSR, Cypherpunks... Do I hear more.. Or are we so split up that we can't agree on our common goal....
The more the merrier, in my opinion. As long as they can all get funding, which admittedly could be a problem, but presumably if it is then some of the organizations will just drop out. *shrug* But in general, decentralization is good, right? I'd rather have 5 organizations defending electronic rights then just one, when we know all too well how possible it is for that just one to negotiate a compromise that seems more like a betrayal. The more active, funded organizations, the more it appears to legislators like people are really concerned about this stuff, and the safer we are against point-failure. Decentralize, distribute, good. :) [Of course it remains to be seen if so many organizations at once can remain active and well funded.]
On Wed, 4 Jan 1995, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
which admittedly could be a problem, but presumably if it is then some of the organizations will just drop out. *shrug* But in general, decentralization is good, right? I'd rather have 5 organizations defending electronic rights then just one, when we know all too well how possible it is for that just one to negotiate a compromise that seems more like a betrayal. The more active, funded organizations, the more it appears to legislators like people are really concerned about this stuff, and the safer we are against point-failure. Decentralize, distribute, good. :)
[Of course it remains to be seen if so many organizations at once can remain active and well funded.]
A good point, but I was just trying to make the point of too many organizations becomes very silly.... But thanks for pointing out the other extereme... | A(a)ron M. Freed | It is naive to believe people are honest. | | s009amf@discover.wright.edu | It is naive to believe programmers are | | (513)276-3817 (voice) | honest. It is even more naive to believe | | (513)276-4158 (data/fax) | the government is honest. Down with Big | | | Brother. | |_____________________________|___________________________________________|
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