[Clips] Court rules no whistle-blower free-speech right

[R.A. Hettinga]

At 7:22 AM -0700 5/31/06, Steve Schear wrote:
>This may not be as much a blow to free speech as an opportunity to promote
>the civic virtue of psuedo-anonymous speech.  Cypherpunks should focus on
>how whistle-blowers can use available technology to authenticate themselves
>to reporters and secretly correspond to help the press investigate and
>corroborate the story without having to come forward and expose themselves
>to presecution.

Amen.

Contrary to the delusions of statists, politics is *not* physics by other
means.

You can't legislate reality away.

Cheers,
RAH

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