[82277] in Cypherpunks
Re: The Global Fix is In
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Sun Jun 22 22:46:55 1997
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 22:16:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>
To: geeman@best.com
Cc: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>, cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19691231160000.006c4dd0@best.com>
Reply-To: Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>
Without taking a position on the rest of the following post, I should say
that it's the conservative thinktanks and grassroots groups that are
leading the opposition to all administration proposals and are taking a
crypto-absolutist stance.
-Declan
Sure, libertarian groups are just as good or better, but there are fewer
of them. (Cato -still- hasn't come out with their crypto policy analysis
even after they've been working on it for half a year. At least their
privacy paper should be coming out soon. And CEI doesn't have the staff to
devote someone to this issue.) They've done a few conferences and such,
but they're limited by numbers.
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997 geeman@best.com wrote:
> massive investments being made by Industry in the conservative thinktanks
> who produce the
> intellectual fodder-de-jour that supports the position of this elite, and
> overwhelm the
> likes of McCain and Kerrey with
> impossible-for-the-legislature-to-understand managed
