CHALLENGE response (fwd)

Jim Choate ravage at einstein.ssz.com
Mon Sep 21 16:18:13 PDT 1998



Forwarded message:

> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 08:01:07 +0200
> From: Anonymous <nobody at replay.com>
> Subject: CHALLENGE response

> "Contrary to one famous philosopher,
> you're saying the medium is not the
> message," Judge Thomas Nelson said,
> alluding to the media theorist Marshall
> McLuhan. 
> http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/120997encrypt-bernstein.html
> 
>   Bullshit!
>   The bits and bytes of email encryption are a clear message
> that I wish to exercise my right to speak freely, without those
> who wish to do me harm invading my privacy.

If you're going to take that tack then you need to invoke freedom of the
press and not freedom of speech.


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