From: "James Caldwell" <jcaldwel@iquest.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 95 22:17:27 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Yet Another Alarmist TV Show About Child Molesters on the Ne
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On 25 Sep 95 at 0:06, Hroller Anonymous Remailer wrote:

It's called the Hegelian Diclectic(sp?) first postulated by William
Hegel (an ass) in Germany approx the 1600's as a method for social change
when none could otherwise be achieved.

> And the trashing will continue.  It is the classic scenario.
> Feed the media negative press clips about the entity you wish
> to discredit (here, the Net), e.g.:
> 1.  All those pedophiles out to lure your children;
> 2.  Big coverage on catching some of those pedophiles;
> 3.  First page coverage on breaking Netscape's code with the
>     headlines that your sensitive information such as your
>     credit card numbers, etc. can be retrieved (ignoring that
>     the reason was to show Netscape's poorly structered code
>     would allow this and, therefore, preventing it before it
>     could happen);
> 4.  Expect cryptology to crop up in the Oklahoma bombing trial.
>     There already has been articles of those involved having
>     allegedly used that *damned* Net to correspond.