[46697] in Cypherpunks
A & E Investigation: "Cypherpunks--Threat or Menace?"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy C. May)
Sun Jan 7 13:15:22 1996
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 11:25:57 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
At 7:53 AM 1/7/96, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
>I just got done watching it. Heavy on the porno and Light on the privacy.
>It did cover some of our hot buttons but stayed away from talking about
>their context (ie: They covered the TN prosecution of the CA BBS owner but
>ignored the question of if it was a prosecution or a persecution [as well
>as the question of if the charge/trial was legal in the first case]).
Bill Curtis: "Behind this shabby door, a malicious hacker who calls himself
a "Cypherpunk" is plotting ways to spread his poison to unsuspecting
computer users and innocent children."
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(The above quote is from a hypothetical report on Cypherpunks, using the
same loaded language to score propaganda points.)
I saw most of the A&E report last night, and was not impressed. All doors
were called "shabby" (the doors looked like any doors to me). The software
was described as "degrading to women" (didn't look degrading to me, looked
like the porn starlets in Vegas were having a ball). And so on, using
journalistically-biased language to describe everything.
Just propaganda.
--Tim May
We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed.
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