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RE: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone (fwd)
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> From: Matthew James Gering <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone
> Alternative
> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 14:29:47 -0800
> Petro wrote:
> > However, Privacy + Freedom == Anarchy, or close enough to be
> > indistinguishable.
This is silly.
> for privacy. In fact there is good claim that privacy will not exist in
> anarchy except by those that decide to use the tools and methods to achieve
> it -- cat and mouse game same as today, except the corporate cats are bound
> by economics (the value of data to them versus the cost to obtain it)
> whereas government cats are not.
They're bound by economics and nothing else, not even the government cats.
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