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Re: 6/6 New Yorker anti-crypto propaganda
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> From [email protected] Mon Jun 6 03:51:24 1994
> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 01:10:22 -0500
> From: Anthony Garcia <[email protected]>
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> In-Reply-To: "Bradley W. Dolan"'s message of 05 Jun 94 21:00:47 EDT <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: 6/6 New Yorker anti-crypto propaganda
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> New Yorker writer says:
> [Many clueless things, including:]
> The net poses a fundamental threat not only to the authority
> of the government, but to all authority, because it permits
> people to organize, think, and influence one another without
> any institutional supervision whatsoever.
>
> Oh, Dear. We Certainly Can't Let That Happen.
>
> Sigh. This gentleman obviously needs to be regrooved. Does anyone
> have his net address?
>
> -Anthony Garcia
> [email protected]
> "Wacos In Cyberspace: Hear, hear!"
>
Well, as I read that sentence in isolation, it is true, and a Good Thing.
I will be concerned if the author is urging "institutional" supervision.
Guess I gotta go read the New Yorker now. Sheesh, you guys, you get me
to read the Atlantic Monthly, now the New Yorker. I hope they have
gotten away from their dilatory style, and that the cartoons are still
good, if I gotta waste my money this way.