The article is in this month or last month's Sci Am. Peter Trei

---------- From: Bill Stewart[SMTP:bill.stewart@pobox.com] Reply To: Bill Stewart Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 11:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list 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.

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<<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

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National Coalition Against Censorship.>>

Yes, and if they worked, there wouldn't be a need for a National Coalition Against Censorship :-)

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ROTFL...

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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?

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--W. Wayt Gibbs

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