[46296] in Cypherpunks
Re: Why Net Censorship Doesn't Work
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Duncan Frissell)
Tue Jan 2 16:27:15 1996
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 15:17:28 -0500
To: ecarp@netcom.com
From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 11:29 AM 1/2/96 -0600, Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin] wrote:
>Tell that to folks in the contries of used-to-be-Russia. Lots of old
>Communist leaders getting back into power - some folks are even saying
>that the old days under the Communists were better than living in a free
>market economy.
I said "modern" country. Even so, Russia and the rest are much more market
dominated than they used to be. Transition will not be easy but I doubt if
they'll go back. As for an eternity of slavery being superior to too
rambunctious freedom -- we won't let them be that stupid. The "cancer of
Anglo-Saxon values" is pretty powerful.
>> Where are the pressure points where regulation can be applied?
>
>How about on the backbone itself? Since everyone goes through the htree
>major backbones, all one would have to do is control access at those
>points. Of course, that would lead to clandestine use of
>store-and-forward LEOsats, s&f UUCP sites, etc. UUCP might even make a
>comeback ;)
That would require outlawry of crypto over the backbone and some way of
convincing the backbone to run government approved code. Quite a bit of
resistance would ensue. Have the Feds ever successfully mandated that large
numbers of people run government code?
DCF
