From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 10:43:54 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: "Rights"
Message-ID: <199602120213.SAA04548@ix5.ix.netcom.com>
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At 09:12 PM 2/10/96 -0500, jf_avon@citenet.net (Jean-Francois Avon (JFA
Technologies, QC, Canada)) wrote:
>Ed.Carp@linux.org, ecarp@netcom.com wrote:
>
>>What happens when there *is* no remedy, when there are no other sites to 
>>go to, when there are no employers who would refrain from violating an 
>>employee's privacy?  What then?
>
>Easy! Either you do not get on the net or you start your own ISP service.
>It might cost money. i.e. requires work, but it is feasible.

Of course, in a market environment, you can do better than that.
Because there are almost always other people who want what you want,
and barring major government interference, there are ways to find them
and usually people interested in offering you and your fellow-travellers 
the service you want.  Most of the time, there are economies of scale
that make it cheaper to get the service together rather than each doing
it yourself, and you can decide whether to do it as a cooperative
or buy it from the vendor who's supporting the bunch of you.

ObCrypto: Even _with_ major government interference, there will be ways
to find your fellow-travellers.  Anonymously.
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