🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <2o3orj$9p8@panix.com>, Clay Shirky <clays@panix.com> wrote:
>In <CnxEJu.4LJ@reptiles.org> jim@reptiles.org (Jim Mercer) writes:
>
>>(but then sneaking a copy onto the NSA's machines would be poetic-justice).
>
>Jim, I am stunned. I stopped replying to your posts when I realized
>that our disagreement is not over this issue but over political
>philosophies generally. You trust your Governemnt to control speech
>responsibly, I do not trust any Government, mine even less than yours,
>to do this.
>
>End of story, or so I thought, until I see this tag line. You have
>understood that a section of the US Government does not want the best
>for its citizens, and that despite the NSA's mandate to impoverish our
>lives, you can see what a good idea it would be to ignore minor issues
>of national borders in favor of a larger poetic justice. You have
>exactly grasped our position on the ban.

fine, then hack your way into the attorney general's computers and stuff
a copy there.  hell, just shoot for gov.on.ca, since i think that is their
only internet reachable host.

just don't stick it on someone else's machine so they catch the grief.

as a side note, i'd argue that the Clipper/NSA issue is not just an american
problem.  canada abides by, endorses and similarly resticts the current
DES export laws, and i haven't seen anything that convinces me that they
wouldn't force canadians to live under the rule of Clipper as well.

the concept that a canadian judge tried to keep secrets from the canadian
people (the law is only in effect in canada), is not similar to the boneheaded
concept of clipper, which the NSA/US Gov't knows full well will get exported 
to other countries.

another side note, Clipper is an issue of privacy. the ban is an issue of
non-privacy (anti-privacy?).  i support privacy and in my opinion, free speech,
if abused, conflicts with privacy.


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