Re: Civil liberties of employees (Re: FYB_oss)

[tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)]

At 7:29 AM 5/14/96, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:
>From:   IN%"froomkin@law.miami.edu"  "Michael Froomkin" 14-MAY-1996 03:24:06.58

>>Yes and no...and kinda no.
>
>        Umm... you would appear to be discussing the current legal situation,
>whereas TCMay was discussing what the situation _should_ be. In the limits
>you discuss, the civil liberties of the _employer_ are being seriously
>trampled upon.

Exactly.

As I described in another post last night, this is the point.

I've mostly given up on trying to change the existing laws and political
system...it is too far down the path de Tocqueville described a century and
a half ago (roughly, "America's great experiment with democracy will last
only until the populace discovers it can pick the pockets of others at the
ballot box.").

Strong cryptography at least returns "freedom of association" to us, albeit
not with True Names, and may return other freedoms to us as well.

By bypassing democracy, the true enemy of liberty.


--Tim May

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