Ranks Of Privacy 'Pragmatists' Are Growing

[Declan McCullagh]

Bill, this is splendid! Can I talk you into writing a similar screed about 
privacy leftists? I'll cite you in my weekly column. --Declan


At 21:28 12/13/2000 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
>At 04:46 PM 12/13/00 -0800, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
> >At 11:35 AM -0500 on 12/9/00, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Privacy leftists
> >
> >We have a winner.
> >Time to patch the old buzzword engine with something *truly* inflammatory...
>
>Of course, "Privacy Rightwingers" don't believe in real privacy either.
>(You can't use the term "privacy rightists" to parallel "privacy leftists"
>because it will be interpreted wrong, but "Privacy Rightwingers" is close.)
>
>After all, the government ought to be able to poke into your business,
>and tap your phone calls in traditional fashion, and keep track of your race,
>and keep track of your nationality in case you might be a furriner,
>and keep track of who lives where because there might be (gasp!)
>unmarried persons of opposite sex sharing living quarters,
>or otherwise shacking up.  Motels, too.   And anywhere Commies do anything.
>They probably don't insist on violating your privacy in everything -
>for instance there's no need to search people getting on airplanes,
>because if everybody took handguns on planes they could shoot
>any Commie hijackers trying to go to Cuba....
>
>Then there's Barlow's definition of privacy in a small town
>"where you don't need to use your turn signal because
>everybody knows where you're going anyway."
>                                 Thanks!
>                                         Bill
>Bill Stewart, bill.stewart at pobox.com
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