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Re: Censorship on cypherpunks



Excellent point and well taken. "Regulations" is misleading; "rules" is a 
better term.

Think the Catholic Church and its historical penchant for excommunication.

-Declan


On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Duncan Frissell wrote:

> At 04:45 AM 11/4/96 -0800, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> >Libertarianism is not incompatible with strict regulations, as long as 
> >the rules violate nobody's rights.
> >
> >-Declan
> 
> Obviously many voluntary religious organizations have quite strict rules
> for their members and are compatible with libertarianism.  Government
> monopoly regulations that cannot be opted out of are not compatible with
> libertarianism.  Instead of using the loaded term "regulations' it might be
> better to call things like the rules of the cypherpunk's list "club rules"
> or protocols.
> 
> DCF
> 


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