From: Jiri Baum <jirib@sweeney.cs.monash.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 22:40:35 +0800
To: vznuri@netcom.com (Vladimir Z. Nuri)
Subject: Re: proposal for new cyber abbreviation
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Message-ID: <199512280403.PAA10201@sweeney.cs.monash.edu.au>
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Hello,

"Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com> wrote:
 
> yes, cyberspace just doesn't have enough acronyms like AFAIK and IANAL etc.
> ad nauseam. (I have reason to believe that PTB, or "powers that be" was
...
> SHTBD!!!!
> 
> as in, Something Has To Be Done.
...

Proposed extension:

SHTBD/<agent>

eg:

There's a paedophile on the Internet! SHTBD/PTB!

PTB're trying to regulate cyberspace! SHTBD/EFF!

PTB're pushing GAK! SHTBD/C'punks!

And so on. After all, all sides can cry "SHTBD", can't they?


(Home users may prefer the alternate syntax SHTBD\<agent>, ie
SHTBD\PTB, SHTBD\EFF, SHTBD\C_PUNKS etc :-)

...
> used either seriously or satirically (probably mostly satirically by
> everyone here).
> 
> example:
...
> "I was not implying that SHTBD, merely that we are moving into a brave
> new world in cyberspace".

How about something like:
"I was not implying that SHTBD/PTB to stop it, but that SHTBD/us to
support it/deploy it/get ready for it."

...
> notice that SHTBD is the antithesis of cypherpunk philosophy in that
> it tends to imply
> 
> 1. government intervention

Hence the addition of the <agent> field...

> 2. coercive force
> 3. censorship
...

Yet one of your examples implied the opposite - sorry, I nuked it, but
it was about the media picking bogeymen.

...
> hence by using this term and popularizing it, we promote our own agenda
> of "cryptoanarchy".
...

Fortunately for the anarchists, perhaps, an authoritarian government
is isomorphic to anarchy.


Jiri
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