Futplex makes the news!
rah@shipwright.com (Robert Hettinga) wrote:
I just heard on WBUR (NPR) here in Boston that our own L. (I know his real first name now...) "Futplex" McCarthy was busted by the UMASS diginarks for putting "Nazi material" on the internet. This must be one of those Nazi-mirrors I've been skipping articles over...
Horrors. We seem to be discovering more and more side effects from the defense of free speech for the unpopular. The Holocausta Nostra is cheering wildly at the opportunity to present the works of Mr. Zundel under a banner reading "Nazi Scum". Zundelsites are being set up by people whose views are so disgusting they probably offend even Mr. Zundel himself. And now our very own "Futplex" will have to live the rest of his life branded as a electronic distributor of "hate literature" by the forces of political correctness at UMASS. It may be time to regroup and take inventory of what we are suposedly trying to accomplish here. -- X-Signature: Mike Duvos X-Signature-File: c:\netcom\mail.sig On a completely different note, which I am appending so as to waste as little bandwidth as possible, Cypherpunks messages to my netcom account stopped dead two days ago, and I am getting no response from either majordomo@toad.com or cypherpunks-owner@toad.com. I am currently reading the list quite nicely on news://news.hks.net/hks.lists.cypherpunks using Netscape so it really isn't a big deal, but I was just curious if there was a routing problem or some other Net glitch. Please EMAIL any replies.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, Mike Duvos wrote:
It may be time to regroup and take inventory of what we are suposedly trying to accomplish here.
I believe we *have* regrouped sufficiently, and I am doing my best to give followup stories what I believe to be the correct spin. UMass will be *humiliated* if we play this right. Whom do we call? For what I think is a good story (I wish they'd credited cypherpunks and other people more, but they do need to play up the local angle), see: http://www-Daily.stanford.edu/2-2-96/NEWS/index.html AFAIK, futplex is the only person who has suffered any kind of negative impact from these events. Except for cpunk reactions to my very poor postings here, and *one* person who thought I was a Nazi (and who was corrected, and apologized), I've been getting nothing but praise. IMHO, the correct response is to stop whining and trumpet victory, loudly, and slam Exon and the CDA while we're at it. "This story shows that the so-called Communications Decency Act is just as ill-advised. If only four people at a handful of major universities can defeat German censorship of someone everybody hates, how can we expect mere laws to prevent the spread of indeterminate 'indecent' material on the Internet, which any teenager is interested in." - -rich -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMRKUXI3DXUbM57SdAQF3FQP/aVjiP4/yTj7Atuq409NJCuCB7deEpqvF JcebTz1jG8D4M08VGhjOgFDGs+cNJ1zKXB3AZ9OLuCDnTr4oONsvPo2e3RnbZUYe YMHBFsKNisq5FRAGOy2UwBbukI+NauFDAzKvCfQJBs5iPpk6aE8sEtwu+ja5nYBs y8zjtjSuMDQ= =jUPV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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