On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:25:33PM -0400, brainteaser wrote:

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Thats one thing I don't get about what (many) people post on this list. There is a lot of shit about the government did this and federal agents are doing that, but very little about what corporations do. Partly this is probably because of some sort of a "the market must be right" mentality, even though as I see it we are a long way from any sort of

This is naive. Nobody here of any substance has argued "the market is always right" or anything of the sort. Anyone remember the Edsel? The dot com crash? It is, however, more likely to produce desirable effects than state-provided goods and services are.

The reason cypherpunkish types are more concerned about government abuses than perceived corporate abuses is that one can switch grocery stores if you don't like their privacy policy, but you don't have that choice when dealing with the U.S. government.

-Declan

Or, as Steve Gilliard even more succinctly put it: ""...the reason that some of us are more concerned about government power than about corporate power is that Coca Cola very rarely strafes the villages of Pepsi drinkers." Free, encrypted, secure Web-based email at www.hushmail.com