Re: Censorial leftists (Was: Interesting article)

[Lizard <lizard@dnai.com>]

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At 01:01 AM 12/4/97 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
>PRIVACY FROM GOVERNMENT: Lefty groups join libertarians and 
occasionally
>some right wing groups (Eagle Forum) here. Their battle is with 
defense/law
>enforcement and (largely) right-wing groups that are ideologically
>sympatico. This collection of right-wing groups includes police 
chiefs,
>attys general groups, and columnists like Frank "ban crypto" Gaffney 
from
>the Washington Times. We can be more precise if we break down 
"privacy from
>government" into narrower issues like wiretap, crypto, medical 
privacy,
>etc. Gets more complicated (as you note) when we're talking about 
balancing
>access to gvt info with privacy; journalist groups come down hard 
for
>access.

Well, this isn't entirely true. Some of the loudest voices in 
banning/regulating crypto come from the left:Senator Lieberman, 
Senator Feinstein,Rep. Dellums, the Clinton Administration in 
general, etc. The fear of 'bomb making information' and 'terrorist 
militia groups' is almost entirely a left-wing fear, one about as 
realistic and plausible as the 60's John Birchers fear of 'Communist 
insurrection' behind every middle-class loser youth who grew his hair 
too long or waved around (but probably never read) Mao's Little Red 
Book.
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