From: Raph Levien <raph@cs.berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 07:03:15 +0800
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: Re: NYT/CyberTimes on CWD article
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Declan McCullagh wrote:
> 
> "We are writers, not crytographers."
> 
> -Declan

   Well done. Very well done. I'm not sure why Brock is constructing
this hard-drinking bad-boy persona (perhaps he's trying to become the
Trent Reznor of crypto journalism), but the piece was great.

   This work sends a very clear message (which is obvious to
cypherpunks, but not to the pro-censorship side): that in practice, what
exactly gets censored has a lot more to do with politics, and a lot less
to do with the original good intentions of the pro-censorship forces,
than appears on the surface. There's no reason to believe that
government-sponsored censorship would be any more carefully done than
the privately available software packages of today. In fact, there is
ample evidence to believe the contrary; these programs are subject to
the discipline of the marketplace.

   Sorry for the mini-rant. Keep up the good work.

Raph