CDR: RE: Fw: Others are protecting freedom of speech too.

[Trei, Peter]

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

Peter Trei


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> From: 	Bill Stewart[SMTP:bill.stewart at 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.
> 
> At 12:30 PM 9/26/00 -0400, Marcel Popescu wrote:
> ><<But "there are much more direct ways to protect whistle-blowers, using
> >laws instead of technology," says Joan E. Bertin, executive director of
> the
> >National Coalition Against Censorship.>>
> 
> Yes, and if they worked, there wouldn't be a need for a 
> National Coalition Against Censorship :-)
> 
> 
> >ROTFL...
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >X-Loop: openpgp.net
> >From: "mh mirror" <mh_mirror at hotmail.com>
> >To: <freenet-chat at lists.sourceforge.net>
> >Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 2:52 PM
> >Subject: [Freenet-chat] Others are protecting freedom of speech too.
> >
> >
> >........
> >        INTERNET_ANONYMITY
> >
> >                               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?
> 
> ......
> 
> 
> >        --W. Wayt Gibbs
> 
> 
> 				Thanks! 
> 					Bill
> Bill Stewart, bill.stewart at pobox.com
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