[65436] in Cypherpunks
Re: "Remailers can't afford to be choosy"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Avon)
Sat Sep 14 01:50:13 1996
From: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 01:30:39 -0500
On 13 Sep 96 at 15:04, E. Allen Smith wrote:
> Umm.... freedom of the press is freedom for he who owns the press.
> The remailer operators own the presses; why shouldn't they use
> whatever means they see fit to determine how they can be used? I
> encourage people not to discriminate on the basis of the political
> orientation of what's going through...
If, just for the sake of example, you were truly believing in
unregulated capitalism, with all the arguments in the world, and ,
say for the sake of the example, again, a True Communist (tm) was
mailing through your remailer, advocating that they seize your
property for the benefit of some unknown, but all deserving stranger.
Would any censorship be illegitimate? In other words, should you
work to further the work of the ones who whishes, but their avowed
goals, to bring you harm?
jfa
Jean-Francois Avon, Montreal QC Canada
"One of theses centuries, the brutes, private or public, who believe
that they can rule their betters by force, will learn the lesson of
what happens when brute force encounters mind and force."
- Ragnar Danneskjold
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