Re: Boycotts and Etiquette

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

At 4:04 PM 7/22/96, Alan Horowitz wrote:
>My own decision to not interlocute with Sternlight is premised as
>follows:  His viewpoint is invariant and, by now, efficiently disseminated.
>Briefly, he is a Statist and he never heard of any degree of Statism that
>offends his sensibilities.  I understand he's old enough to have been
>around when Stalin was still running things in the USSR.  David probably
>was finding good things to say about Old Joe.  And more importantly,
>about J Edgar Hoover.

Actually, David came out _against_ both Digital Telephony and mandatory key
escrow, as I recall. For me, his process of conversion took entirely too
long, as most of saw in the ostensibly voluntary Clipper program the seeds
of a mandatory regimen. But he _did_ come out against these programs.

I think this refutes the point that he's never heard of any degree of
Statism that offends his sensibilities.

>I pay by the minute for my internet access; many others do as well. If I
>decide to ignore Sternlight, it is a business decision, not a moral one.

Understandable. I find that _writing_ an article, even a short one like
this, takes about as much time as adding 10 people to my filter file or
hitting the "delete" key 50 times, so filtering out stuff I don't want to
read has never been an issue.

--Tim May


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