[48635] in Cypherpunks
Re: The Big Lie
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Murphy)
Tue Jan 30 07:19:24 1996
To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jan 1996 07:44:29 EST."
<ukugiD96w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
Reply-To: packrat@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 20:15:42 +0800
From: Bruce Murphy <packrat@ratbox.rattus.uwa.edu.au>
In message <ukugiD96w165w@bwalk.dm.com>,
Dr. Dimitri Vulis wrote:
> Bruce Murphy <packrat@ratbox.rattus.uwa.edu.au> writes:
> >
> > I was under the impression that you couldn't libel/slander a dead
> > person. Mainly because libel/slander is a offence against reputation
> > which dead people don't care much for, but also because once you go
> > against this principle where in hell (no pun intended) do you draw the
> > line.
>
> Where it's convenient to the state. Reportedly in Germany you can easily
> slander dead people, their estates, their descendants, and other members
> of their ethnic group.
Well... how about pets then? Hitler had a pathetic goldfish!
Damn germans. I guess that they really haven't changed a hell of a lot
over the past few decades. No wonder that every other European race
(pretty much) sterotypes them.
Personally I have quite a bit of confidence that my government isn't
going to worry about encryption stuff until technology passes them
by. I am not at all unhappy about this.
--
Packrat (BSc/BE;COSO;Wombat Admin)
Nihil illegitemi carborvndvm.
