AAAS Anonymity Project (Be AFRAID!)

Ray Arachelian sunder at brainlink.com
Thu Jul 3 09:11:01 PDT 1997



On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Robert Hettinga wrote:

>      The Scientific Freedom, Responsibility, and Law Program of the
>      American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is
>      conducting an on-line survey to learn more about the uses of anonymity
>      and pseudonymity on the Internet.  The survey, together with a series
>      of focus group meetings and an invitational conference, is part of a
>      project being funded by the National Science Foundation.  The project
>      will generate a set of criteria describing the contexts in which
>      anonymous and pseudonymous communications are desirable, permissible,
>      or undesirable, and a set of guidelines for the use of anonymous and
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Sounds like an attempt at furthering legislation to curtail our freedoms.
I say stay the hell away from this.  It smells of evil TLA's.


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