[46016] in Cypherpunks
Re: proposal for new cyber abbreviation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jiri Baum)
Thu Dec 28 03:49:43 1995
From: Jiri Baum <jirib@sweeney.cs.monash.edu.au>
To: vznuri@netcom.com (Vladimir Z. Nuri)
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 15:03:46 +1100 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199512271947.LAA22943@netcom17.netcom.com> from "Vladimir Z. Nuri" at Dec 27, 95 11:47:41 am
Reply-To: jirib@cs.monash.edu.au
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Hello,
"Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com> wrote:
> yes, cyberspace just doesn't have enough acronyms like AFAIK and IANAL etc.
> ad nauseam. (I have reason to believe that PTB, or "powers that be" was
...
> SHTBD!!!!
>
> as in, Something Has To Be Done.
...
Proposed extension:
SHTBD/<agent>
eg:
There's a paedophile on the Internet! SHTBD/PTB!
PTB're trying to regulate cyberspace! SHTBD/EFF!
PTB're pushing GAK! SHTBD/C'punks!
And so on. After all, all sides can cry "SHTBD", can't they?
(Home users may prefer the alternate syntax SHTBD\<agent>, ie
SHTBD\PTB, SHTBD\EFF, SHTBD\C_PUNKS etc :-)
...
> used either seriously or satirically (probably mostly satirically by
> everyone here).
>
> example:
...
> "I was not implying that SHTBD, merely that we are moving into a brave
> new world in cyberspace".
How about something like:
"I was not implying that SHTBD/PTB to stop it, but that SHTBD/us to
support it/deploy it/get ready for it."
...
> notice that SHTBD is the antithesis of cypherpunk philosophy in that
> it tends to imply
>
> 1. government intervention
Hence the addition of the <agent> field...
> 2. coercive force
> 3. censorship
...
Yet one of your examples implied the opposite - sorry, I nuked it, but
it was about the media picking bogeymen.
...
> hence by using this term and popularizing it, we promote our own agenda
> of "cryptoanarchy".
...
Fortunately for the anarchists, perhaps, an authoritarian government
is isomorphic to anarchy.
Jiri
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