[91576] in Cypherpunks
Re: Cato forum tomorrow: should money laundering be a crime?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Mon Dec 8 13:14:14 1997
In-Reply-To: <v03102801b0b11da588dd@[207.167.93.63]>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 09:21:33 -0800
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
From: Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
>(Why is this discussion limited to just the four of us? Surely Declan and
>his Cato buddies are worthy to hear our arguments? I dislike the "taking
>things private" mindset, when the lists are already so cluttered with Toto
>rants and other consumers of vast amounts of bandwidth.)
If my header lines implied this, it was inadvertent. I agree more=
'relevent' content on CP is desireable.
>I haven't quite said that all forms of communication/spending money will be
>speech and therefore protected. (Besides, we all know of many forms of
>speech that are unprotected.)
>
>What I (and Michael Froomkin, in his own CFP talk) have argued is that
>digital money will be _undetectable_ in many cases unless government
>demands that the contents of a private communication be revealed. A kind of
>prior restraint on speech.
>
[snip]
>If the government determines, somehow, that Alice was
>involved in an illegal transaction, tax evasion, money laundering, etc.,
>they can try to get her on that. But they can't insist that words be
>submitted to a government agent for approval."
Isn't uttering a check protected speech? What about if a check is=
stego-coded in some political rant? Can the Feds insist I not utter that s=
peech?
--Steve
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