Silk Road founder arrested ...
Ted Smith
tedks at riseup.net
Wed Oct 2 16:34:14 PDT 2013
On Thu, 2013-10-03 at 01:12 +0200, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote:
> Ted
> On Wed, 2013-10-02 at 22:31 +0200, Lodewijk andré de la porte
> wrote:
> > If you say anarchy is part of cypherpunkism (if that's a
> thing) I
> > simply disagree with you.
> You're wrong as a matter of historic fact.
> Are you one of the people that was too afraid to be on the
> al-qaeda list
> or something?
>
>
> At first I frowned and wondered why. Then I thought it was likely a
> joke and if it wasn't then what's the problem with al-qaeda? Also a
> distinct lack of right-to-left garbage spewing at me.
(to clarify, this list used to have the address cyperpunks at al-qaeda.net,
until liberals afraid of their own shadow forced it into more neutral
territory. Many people joined at that point, somewhat diluting the
existing radicalism.)
> Of course putting things into the people's hands (truly and
> irrevocably) is something that's very cypherpunk. In that sense it's
> also very anarchist, as permission from anyone is not required to take
> that power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptoanarchism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk
This isn't a hard concept to grasp.
--
Sent from Ubuntu
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