Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 12:10:44 -0500 To: fight-censorship+@andrew.cmu.edu From: declan@well.com (Declan McCullagh) Subject: HotWired -- "A Browne Study" When Harry Browne was in my office for an interview on Tuesday, he talked a good line, stressing his unabashed support for free speech (online and offline) and government nonintervention in crypto. Read the full article in today's HW/Netizen at the URL below for details... Also in today's Netizen, John Heilemann reports on how "wired" Dick Lamm is, saying that as long as Lamm's politics are in touch with the future, it's good for the Net: http://www.hotwired.com/netizen/96/28/index3a.html I happen to disagree; I think that if a candidate for president wants to portray himself as "wired," he should venture into c-space himself. At least we know Browne's cyber-clueful -- after all, he told me he bookmarked HotWired. :) -Declan --- HotWired, The Netizen http://www.hotwired.com/netizen/96/28/campaign_dispatch3a.html "A Browne Study" Campaign Dispatch by Declan McCullagh Washington, DC, 10 July The newly anointed Libertarian candidate for president dropped by HotWired's Washington bureau yesterday. With netizens appropriately regulation-shy after the Communications Decency Act brouhaha, the White House's Clipper III proposal, and calls from the Justice Department for a new cabinet-level agency to rein in the Net, it was clear the guy knows how to woo online voters. "Can you imagine if I got to the debates, and I made Bill Clinton and Bob Dole justify censoring the Internet - made them justify their blatant disregard for the First Amendment of the Constitution?" Harry Browne asked. No doubt about it, the Libertarian party has its flaws - little things, like that they'd gut environmental laws and auction off America's national parks and wildlife refuges if given half a chance. But it's also pretty obvious that this is the only party that actually understands the Net. [...]