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Re: Breaking into girlfriend's files

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Hewn)
Thu Dec 29 13:04:31 1994

Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 11:57:35 -0600
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Matt Hewn <matthewn@uiuc.edu>

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To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Matt Hewn <matthewn@uiuc.edu>
> Black Unicorn writes:
>
> > Person A requests information.
> > Person B says no, because the use of the information is unsound in 
> > person B's view.
> > Censorship?  You tell me.
>
> Not unless person B is trying to force other people not to give out the
> information.  Failure to release the information himself is not censorship;
> it doesn't matter what his reasons for doing so are.


Person A requests information from Group C. 
Person B is a member of Group C.
Person B does not ignore Person A.
Person B does not speak with Person A.
Person B responds to Person A by addressing Group C.

Why?

If the last sentence I quoted is true, then why tell _us_ why he won't 
release the information.


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