From: Grand Epopt Feotus <68954@brahms.udel.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 94 16:44:25 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Oh No! Nazis on the Nets
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On Fri, 11 Feb 1994, Hadmut Danisch wrote:

> 
> Perry E. Metzger says:
> 
> 
> So? If you find a paper with YOUR face, YOUR name and big 
> letters KILL THIS MAN FOR BEING A JEW, would you think
> this is okay?
> 
> Would you give out PGP for mailing such calls encyphered?
> 
	Oh bullshit, dont try that argument.  If that was they way the 
world operated we would be eating raw meat in a cave still.  The tools 
are NOT evil and should be distributed.  It's how you use them that can 
be bad.

> > Do you not have to register your newspaper?
> 
> No, we don't. This is not true. Who told you this tale?
> 
> 
> Is it "freedom of press" if someone tells american people
> that germans would have to register their newspapers?
> 
	No, it's inherent to freedom of press, meaning sometimes we get 
lied to apparantly this was one of those times, but it's not "freedom of 
press" persey.

> 
> Hadmut
> 
	Can we cut the politickin out or is this normal?  I mean I know 
politics play a major role in cryptography, but throwinf explitives about 
Nazis isnt really conductive to good encrytian development.


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