Let's Talk About Solutions
In article <199311291601.LAA15061@eff.org> mnemonic@eff.org "Mike Godwin" writes:
For some, adequate solutions may already be in place. But I note that for "mere users" (as distinct from sophisticated users and programmers), current filtering tools are difficult to use. What can make this better?
So, you have an objection to the net evolving into a technocratic class system? I see nothing wrong with letting people suffer who haven't the competancy to protect themselves for net.idiots. That's practically the entire basis of the Amercian enconomic system after all... G -- Personal mail to gtoal@gtoal.com (I read it in the evenings) Business mail to gtoal@an-teallach.com (Be careful with the spelling!) Faxes to An Teallach Limited: +44 31 662 4678 Voice: +44 31 668 1550 x212
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Graham Toal writes:
So, you have an objection to the net evolving into a technocratic class system?
Well, yes. To the extent that tools remain the province of the elite, it is politically easy to take them away from that elite.
The cypherpunks welcome message (Eric Hughes, I suppose) seems to apply here:
Cypherpunks acknowledge that those who want privacy must create it for themselves and not expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant them privacy out of beneficence.
So a cypherpunk strives to construct an effective technical defense against the tyranny of the majority so that it is not ``politically easy'' to deprive him of his privacy. John E. Kreznar | Relations among people to be by jkreznar@ininx.com | mutual consent, or not at all. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLP3TJcDhz44ugybJAQEtIgP6Ai5JkOLa9c6ng5pBJ3Zp2QZZE6RVCUow Q/Ml/TKUphUZTEFqznj7f2vOf5U+rP1dCDbalewhhMCXeezYj8U+GQf1rmNEX+rB +q1nyzzFNH40HnINIvMJbIi8hQtjBqUZQAn8X29TJJhK5CDHAcsLjUl3HE0PPFEW iHkN8XMh4xA= =+4Nf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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