1997-07-01 - Re: Marc Andreessen on encryption and CDA

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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To: geeman@best.com
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UTC Datetime: 1997-07-01 03:25:34 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 11:25:34 +0800

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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 11:25:34 +0800
To: geeman@best.com
Subject: Re: Marc Andreessen on encryption and CDA
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Ah, but what is a market except voluntary transactions between people?
What is good for the market is good for the people.

-Declan

On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 geeman@best.com wrote:

> My biggest problem is when the pundits (and by extension, those that punt
> to them)
> frame this entire debate in terms of the Market.  To do so is to argue that
> only solutions
> that are good for The Market are good solutions; that when a particular
> policy is market-agnostic
> or market-negative, even though it may be good policy for People (yes,
> remember them ???) it is irrelevant or
> bad.  This debate is NOT about the Worldwide Encryption Market!
> 






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