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Re: Chomsky quote (thread from hell)

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> [email protected] (James A. Donald) wrote:
>
> >Noam Chomsky, in a 4/16/94 e-mail response to a question from Steve
> >Shalom, says:
> >
> >   In my opinion, not only mainstream intellectuals but also others
> >   who produce a constant stream of lies, distortion, racist screeds,
> >   etc., should be permitted freedom of speech.  The state should not
> >   have the power to stop them.  The same freedom extends to
> >   hypocrites, like faculty senates who choose one particularly and
> >   usually quite marginal example because career and power interests
> >   are served thereby, while ignoring vastly more significant and
> >   awful cases because the opposite is true.  And Congress, of which
> >   the same is correct.
>

[utterly specious reasoning deleted]

> Thus he is actually making a misleading and spurious
> argument *against* freedom of speech at the same time as he
> is piously declaring himself to be in favor of freedom of
> speech.

Leaving aside the fact that you've somehow managed to "prove" to
yourself that Chomsky means the opposite of what he clearly and
consistently says, what has this to do with cypherpunks?


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