[81885] in Cypherpunks
Re: Declan as a Budding Washington Insider
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Mon Jun 16 09:17:51 1997
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 97 07:50:03 EDT
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970615232644.25854A-100000@cp.pathfinder.com>
Reply-To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com> writes:
> But Tim's conclusions are way off-target. Just because you have access to
> information doesn't mean you've been co-opted. For instance, contrary to
> what Tim says, I've never "promised to spin the story in a certain way."
You don't have to promise. You're very predictable. Given certain
inputs you're very likely to write certain outputs.
> I mean, geez, if nothing else, look at what I've been writing. Last
> Thursday I wrote about how the Federal government should get out of the
> business of "protecting privacy." On Friday I wrote about how "protecting
> children" from animated cartoon images is another pretext for
> Net-censorship. Who else is saying that?
Can a mailing list poster silence others by talking too much?
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