[12674] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Re: Personal attacks are no substitute for logical consistency
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stanton McCandlish)
Thu May 26 00:23:13 1994
From: Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org>
To: djw@eff.org (Daniel J. Weitzner)
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 15:29:56 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, eff-talk@eff.org
In-Reply-To: <199405251851.OAA17188@eff.org> from "Daniel J. Weitzner" at May 25, 94 02:51:11 pm
Additionally, I'd like to comment on Bruce Fancher's contribution to this
thread [FYI, Bruce - comp.org.eff.news is moderated; mail to that comes to
me. Noting the crosspost to comp.org.eff.talk, I bounce the message to
comp.org.eff.talk].
I'm not certain which of the two Johns on our board you were referring to,
but at any rate, I feel you know little about either Bill Frezza or our
board, and are not in a position to be lecturing us about what
libertarianism is or who is a libertarian. At least two of our board
members are libertarians, and Bill Frezza specifically disavowed the label
"libertarian", preferring "Objectivist", in an earlier iteration of this
would-be debate.
I'm finding it difficult to maintain any enthusiasm for continuing these
discussions in com-priv and elsewhere with the Tax Pack, because
invariably all of these messages are filled with factual errors, logical
inconsistencies, denials of reality, wishful thinking, and misinterpretation.
When you are ready to talk about the real world, please let me know, and
perhaps we can continue. Until then, I have work to do, and cannot devote
any more time to this matter.
I don't mean to be personally insulting to anyone here. But I am not
affraid to brand as illogical that which displays a lack of reason. The
messages on this topic which have crossed my mbox lately have all had the
smell of frantic, irrational guesswork about them. As before though, they
do provide us with frequently asked questions for future, perhaps more
clearly stated, documents that might avoid much of this misinterpretation.
--
Stanton McCandlish * mech@eff.org * Electronic Frontier Found. OnlineActivist
"In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich
Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of
phone calls than to preserve the ability of police to conduct wiretaps.
When informed about the Clipper Chip, 80% said they opposed it."
- Philip Elmer-Dewitt, "Who Should Keep the Keys", TIME, Mar. 14 1994
