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1996-09-04 - Re: What is the EFF doing exactly?

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From: Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org>
To: jimbell@pacifier.com (jim bell)
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UTC Datetime: 1996-09-04 03:45:09 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 11:45:09 +0800

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From: Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 11:45:09 +0800
To: jimbell@pacifier.com (jim bell)
Subject: Re: What is the EFF doing exactly?
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> >The accountability issue is real and
> >should be addressed, not evaded.
> 
> "Addressed", maybe, but that doesn't necessarily mean, "solved."  For many 
> decades, people have been able to walk up to a pay telephone at 3:00 AM and 
> make a harassing phone call to somebody, a "problem" which still exists and 
> no solution is being implemented for.

Yes! Exactly! Of course!  Precisely the example that has come up in EFF's 
own statements on anonymity (which, in absence of a policy on the topic 
have been strictly factual, reporting both sides of the issue).

> I think it's reasonable to come to the conclusion that there is no solution 
> to the anonymity "problem" that isn't worse than the underlying anonymity.  

That's a common view here, to say the least.  And it's one with which I 
am in 100% agreement.

> And, BTW, I don't consider a pro-anonymity position to be an extremist one.

We don't either, even those of us with questions and conundrums to think 
about.

I do think its extremist to not be willing to even address the questions 
and conundrums, but we're in agrement on that, so not much to argue about,
fortunately.

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<HTML><A HREF="http://www.eff.org/~mech/">    Stanton McCandlish
</A><HR><A HREF="mailto:mech@eff.org">        mech@eff.org
</A><P><A HREF="http://www.eff.org/">         Electronic Frontier Foundation
</A><P>        Online Activist    </HTML>

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