Ross's TCPA paper

[Tim May]

On Monday, July 1, 2002, at 02:23  PM, Anonymous wrote:

> [Repost]
>
> Bear writes:
>
>> A few years ago merchants were equally adamant and believed
>> equally in the rightness of maintaining their "right" to not
>> do business with blacks, chicanos, irish, and women.  It'll
>> pass as people wake up and smell the coffee.  Unfortunately
>> that won't be until after at least a decade of really vicious
>> abuses of private data by merchants who believe in their
>> god-given right to snoop on their customers.
>
> My God, how low the cypherpunk list has sunk.  Here we have someone
> not only demanding that merchants be forced to deal with pseudonymous
> customers, he invokes civil rights laws to support his argument!
>
> Where's Tim May when we need him?

I'm right here. But you have missed something very important: "Bear" did 
not write that article for the _Cypherpunks_ list. It was one of many 
articles cross-posted between the _Cryptography_ list and the 
_Cypherpunks_ list and even some of Hettinga's many lists.

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