Rejection policy of the Cypherpunks mailing list
aga
aga at dhp.com
Tue Jan 28 05:18:45 PST 1997
On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
> Dale Thorn wrote:
> >
> > 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?
> >
>
> Don't you like power, Dale?
>
> - Igor.
>
Power corrupts, in some instances.
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