[91347] in Cypherpunks
Re: Censorial leftists (Was: Interesting article)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lizard)
Thu Dec 4 01:57:16 1997
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 22:08:23 -0800
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu,
cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Lizard <lizard@dnai.com>
In-Reply-To: <v03007804b0abdab0e172@[204.254.22.237]>
Reply-To: Lizard <lizard@dnai.com>
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At 01:01 AM 12/4/97 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
>PRIVACY FROM GOVERNMENT: Lefty groups join libertarians and
occasionally
>some right wing groups (Eagle Forum) here. Their battle is with
defense/law
>enforcement and (largely) right-wing groups that are ideologically
>sympatico. This collection of right-wing groups includes police
chiefs,
>attys general groups, and columnists like Frank "ban crypto" Gaffney
from
>the Washington Times. We can be more precise if we break down
"privacy from
>government" into narrower issues like wiretap, crypto, medical
privacy,
>etc. Gets more complicated (as you note) when we're talking about
balancing
>access to gvt info with privacy; journalist groups come down hard
for
>access.
Well, this isn't entirely true. Some of the loudest voices in
banning/regulating crypto come from the left:Senator Lieberman,
Senator Feinstein,Rep. Dellums, the Clinton Administration in
general, etc. The fear of 'bomb making information' and 'terrorist
militia groups' is almost entirely a left-wing fear, one about as
realistic and plausible as the 60's John Birchers fear of 'Communist
insurrection' behind every middle-class loser youth who grew his hair
too long or waved around (but probably never read) Mao's Little Red
Book.
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