Re: LIST OF SHAME VOLUNTEERS

[Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>]

At 09:55 AM 3/25/96 -0500, "Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+@CMU.EDU> wrote:
>Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 25-Mar-96 Re: LIST OF SHAME
>VOLUNTEERS by Black Unicorn@schloss.li 
>> I did a little weekend poking, I can confirm this.  If the Leahy bill 
>> passes, it will be a surprise (putting it mildly).
>
>Especially since there are only -- how many? -- 40 or 50 days left in
>this legislative session.

It might almost be nice to have the legislative session go out on a note of
"We were working on a bill to re-emphasize the Constitutional right
to private speech" rather than a note of "We came for the pornographers,
and you narco-terrorist child-porn-hiding cryptographers* are next on our
List**!"

...especially if it gives us some slack time to improve the (serious)
weakness of the positive-sounding parts of the bill.  Is Senator Leahy
up for re-election this round?


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[**It's especially critical not to be Next on the List during the
first few months of the Buchanan administration....]
[*and your little dog, too!]

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