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

[Bill Stewart]

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
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