The article is in this month or last month's Sci Am.
Peter Trei
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From: Bill Stewart[SMTP:bill.stewart@pobox.com]
Reply To: Bill Stewart
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 11:41 PM
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Subject: Re: Fw: Others are protecting freedom of speech too.
Marcel - did the original posting to the mh_mirror or freenet-chat
lists indicate where the article was from? If you removed it,
could you send me the originals?
It looks newspaperish, but doesn't indicate (AP) or (NYTimes) or whatever.
If it's a newspaper that takes replying letters to the editor,
or at least to the author, it deserves a reply.
The reason I ran a remailer was that it
we can prevent violent people from telling others what they
can and can't say, whether those violent people are
spouse-beating individuals or citizen-beating governments,
and any one person in the world can stand up to all of them.
That doesn't mean it won't be abused (of course it will,
and I eventually took mine down because of abuse,
as most remailer-operators have), but we don't have to put up
with violence any more.
<<But "there are much more direct ways to protect whistle-blowers, using
laws instead of technology," says Joan E. Bertin, executive director of
At 12:30 PM 9/26/00 -0400, Marcel Popescu wrote:
the
National Coalition Against Censorship.>>
Yes, and if they worked, there wouldn't be a need for a
National Coalition Against Censorship :-)
ROTFL...
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INTERNET_ANONYMITY
Speech without Accountability
New software makes it nearly impossible to
remove illegal material from the Web--or to find out who
put
it there
SAN FRANCISCO--In the centuries-long struggle to decide what
people
may say without
fear of prosecution, almost all the big decisions have been made
by
constitution writers,
judges and politicians. When things work properly, these players
......
But is it an appropriate response for a small number of computer
scientists to create software that subverts the efforts of governments
who must answer to citizens, and of companies, who must answer
to both governments and customers?
......
--W. Wayt Gibbs
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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Trei, Peter