[90417] in Cypherpunks
Re: Report on UN conference on Internet and racism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Tue Nov 18 23:35:03 1997
In-Reply-To: <3.0.16.19971118230627.0aef514c@pop.mindspring.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 20:04:08 -0700
To: Mikhael Frieden <mikhaelf@mindspring.com>,
Peter Herngaard <pethern@inet.uni2.dk>,
Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Cc: fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu, cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
At 10:34 PM -0700 11/18/97, Mikhael Frieden wrote:
> The US currently has laws governing foreign ownership of
>publications in the US. Ted Turner had to become a citizen. Don't remember
Yes, this was a major hurdle for Ted Turner. Being born in the Confederacy,
renouncing his citizenship and pledging allegiance the Yankees was indeed a
major move on his part.
(He was even forced to rename the Confederate News Network to its current,
more politically correct, name.)
--Tim May
The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography
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Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
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