Re: Censorship on cypherpunks
At 06:54 PM 11/3/96 -0500, you wrote:
Except it's not very effective, is it, since he's still posting flames? In any case, it's an admission on John Gilmore's part that libertarianism can't work without some measure of authoritarianism; the only argument is over _just how much_ authoritarianism we need.
I'm quite upset about this. Up to now I was able to tell people that "there is at least one mailing list on the net that functions in a completely open manner". No more.
Will French
What has it got to do with libertarianism? John Gilmore is not the government, he just runs the list. If we don't like what he does, we can start a new list. I'm not sure that it was a good idea to remove Vulis, but I don't believe that this single act reflects on any theory of governance.
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