Digital Liberty by Bill Frezza, aka DigitaLiberty

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https://www.wired.com/1995/04/a-fire-wall-around-the-beltway/
https://extropians.weidai.com/extropians.96/0311.html
https://washingtontechnology.com/articles/1996/06/13/internet-to-create-laissezfaire-banking.aspx
https://totseans.com/totse/en/zines/cud_a/cud6105.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute
Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellowship
2013–2014 Bill Frezza

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innovation to thrive is better policy.


Bill Frezza doesn't see much use for government, especially in
cyberspace. That's why DigitaLiberty, the Net-freedom advocacy group
started last December by Frezza, Bruce Fancher (Phantom Access
Technologies CEO and one of the original members of the Legion of
Doom), and Mark Stahlman (New Media Associates president) isn't
interested in influencing politicians or legislators.
"Every time somebody goes to Washington, they get co-opted by the
cybercrats and start flying around in Air Force Two," explains Frezza,
who was dismayed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation's endorsement
of the Digital Telephony Bill that Congress passed last year. (He
considers EFF members "Net-Marxists and handmaidens to the Washington
cybercrats.") "DigitaLiberty refuses to engage or negotiate," he says.
"We're going to build a fire wall around the beltway."
Frezza, a telecommunications industry veteran, says the purpose of
DigitaLiberty is not to block the latest Net-related bill in Congress,
but to construct new global communities and render the government
irrelevant. "Once we move the economy into cyberspace," says Frezza,
"we're outta here!" To subscribe, send e-mail to
digitalibertyrequest at phanton.com, with no subject and the message
"INFO DIGITALIBERTY."

> Those who remember the DigitaLiberty mailing list will recall Stahlman. I
> remember his writing to be flamboyant but generally incisive, consistently
> on the side of individual freedom. Bill Frezza was the ostensible "owner
> and operator" of the list, but I think Stahlman may have had co-status of
> some sort. AFAIK, there are no public archives of that list, although I
> and most likely others have private archives. The list went down a while
> back, flared up briefly and then vanished again. Just like Duncan Frissell
> and Sandy Sandfort's Privacy 101, all the good lists seem to just die out.
> (But Duncan and Sandy are still visibly active, at least, on cypherpunks;
> I haven't seen more than the occasional brief op-ed from Stahlman, and
> nothing from Frezza since (Information Week?) was carrying his column.