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Re: Know Your Net.Enemies Project
> But this is quite a different thing from an "Enemies List," which I rather
> doubt would be useful per se to Barlow, Godwin, and other civil liberties
> activists.
I also think that an "Enemies List" would not be useful... It would only
make people believe that the Cypherpunks are a bunch of anti-government
terrorists.
A list would not be a problem in itself, after all the governments keep
their lists of "subversives". Maybe there should be a "Luddite List"...
Ludd-ite n. (Eng. hist.) a member of those groups of workers who
deliberately smashed machinery in the industrial centers of the East
Midlands, Lancashire and Yorksire (1811-16), believing it to be a cause
of unemployment [after Ned Ludd, a late 18th-c. riot leader]
Of course, "Luddite" is usually used with a more general meaning, refering
to people who are ignorant of and/or resisting technology. I think it's a
very good word to use. It's apropriately demeaning, but not hateful. I
think it's a word that could be accepted and understood by the general
public.
Just a thought.
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