Rejection policy of the Cypherpunks mailing list
Dale Thorn
dthorn at gte.net
Mon Jan 27 23:05:00 PST 1997
Kevin L Prigge wrote:
> paul at fatmans.demon.co.uk said:
> > "cypherpunks will make the networks safe for censorship"
> "Idiots will make the networks require censorship"
The line above this one says it all, doesn't it? If I judge you to
be "an idiot", then, if I also have the power to shut you up, I can
not only shut off your "noise" from me, but also prevent anyone else
from hearing you as well. That's the real beauty of censorship -
if I have the power, I can make you a non-person by preventing most
people from hearing you at all. Oh, lovely, isn't it?
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