From: jkreznar@ininx.com (John E. Kreznar)
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 03:43:24 PST
To: mnemonic@eff.org
Subject: Re: Let's Talk About Solutions
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> Graham Toal writes:

> > So, you have an objection to the net evolving into a technocratic class
> > system?

> Well, yes. To the extent that tools remain the province of the elite,
> it is politically easy to take them away from that elite. 

The cypherpunks welcome message (Eric Hughes, I suppose) seems to apply
here:

> Cypherpunks acknowledge that those who want privacy must
> create it for themselves and not expect governments, corporations, or
> other large, faceless organizations to grant them privacy out of
> beneficence.

So a cypherpunk strives to construct an effective technical defense
against the tyranny of the majority so that it is not ``politically
easy'' to deprive him of his privacy.

	John E. Kreznar		| Relations among people to be by
	jkreznar@ininx.com	| mutual consent, or not at all.

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