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1997-11-16 - The Policeman Inside

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From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
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UTC Datetime: 1997-11-16 17:09:16 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 01:09:16 +0800

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From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 01:09:16 +0800
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Subject: The Policeman Inside
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At 7:38 AM -0700 11/16/97, William H. Geiger III wrote:

>If anyone here needs a real world example of how fear and intimidation
>have a stifling effect on free speech all one has to do is look at the
>abandoned British subjects in Hong Kong (truly a dark day in this history
>of UK). While China has done nothing yet to clamp down on speech in Hong
>Kong self censorship is rampet their for fear of what they "might" do.

William Burroughs warned of "the policeman inside."

(A variation of my "Big Brother Inside" logo might be "Policeman Inside."
Perhaps as many as one in ten thousand might catch the Burroughs reference.)

As Bob Hettinga, Kent Crispin, and other policemen inside are warning, if
we don't censor ourselves, if we don't narc out others, the real police
will have to do it for us. Welcome to the New World Order.

Of course, an alternative is to say "Fuck you" to those who want us to shut
up, to deploy more unbreakable crypto, to encourage more armed militias to
spring up, to destabilize the regimes in Hong Kong, Japan, and India, and
to "Just Say No" to backdoors in PGP and other crypto products. Bring on
crypto anarchy.

--Tim May

The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography
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