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1997-06-16 - Re: Declan as a Budding Washington Insider

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From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1997-06-16 12:58:06 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 20:58:06 +0800

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From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 20:58:06 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Declan as a Budding Washington Insider
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Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com> writes:

> But Tim's conclusions are way off-target. Just because you have access to
> information doesn't mean you've been co-opted. For instance, contrary to
> what Tim says, I've never "promised to spin the story in a certain way."

You don't have to promise.  You're very predictable.  Given certain
inputs you're very likely to write certain outputs.

> I mean, geez, if nothing else, look at what I've been writing. Last
> Thursday I wrote about how the Federal government should get out of the
> business of "protecting privacy." On Friday I wrote about how "protecting
> children" from animated cartoon images is another pretext for
> Net-censorship. Who else is saying that?

Can a mailing list poster silence others by talking too much?

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