Re: Rejection policy of the Cypherpunks mailing list

[OKSAS <oksas@asimov.montclair.edu>]

On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, aga wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
> 
> > Dale Thorn wrote:
> > > 
> > > Kevin L Prigge wrote:
> > > > paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk said:
> > > 
> > > > > "cypherpunks will make the networks safe for censorship"
> > > 
> > > > "Idiots will make the networks require censorship"
> > > 
> > > The line above this one says it all, doesn't it?  If I judge you to
> > > be "an idiot", then, if I also have the power to shut you up, I can
> > > not only shut off your "noise" from me, but also prevent anyone else
> > > from hearing you as well.  That's the real beauty of censorship -
> > > if I have the power, I can make you a non-person by preventing most
> > > people from hearing you at all.  Oh, lovely, isn't it?
> > > 
> > 
> > Don't you like power, Dale?
> > 
> > 	- Igor.
> > 
> 
> Power corrupts, in some instances.


Instances where the power is concentratted to one individual
or small group of individual....