On Thu, 2013-10-03 at 01:12 +0200, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote:
Ted On Wed, 2013-10-02 at 22:31 +0200, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote: > If you say anarchy is part of cypherpunkism (if that's a thing) I > simply disagree with you. You're wrong as a matter of historic fact. Are you one of the people that was too afraid to be on the al-qaeda list or something?
At first I frowned and wondered why. Then I thought it was likely a joke and if it wasn't then what's the problem with al-qaeda? Also a distinct lack of right-to-left garbage spewing at me.
(to clarify, this list used to have the address cyperpunks@al-qaeda.net, until liberals afraid of their own shadow forced it into more neutral territory. Many people joined at that point, somewhat diluting the existing radicalism.)
Of course putting things into the people's hands (truly and irrevocably) is something that's very cypherpunk. In that sense it's also very anarchist, as permission from anyone is not required to take that power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptoanarchism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk This isn't a hard concept to grasp. -- Sent from Ubuntu