From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 12:17:53 +0800
To: Mikhael Frieden <declan@well.com>
Subject: Re: Report on UN conference on Internet and racism
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At 10:34 PM -0700 11/18/97, Mikhael Frieden wrote:

>        The US currently has laws governing foreign ownership of
>publications in the US. Ted Turner had to become a citizen. Don't remember

Yes, this was a major hurdle for Ted Turner. Being born in the Confederacy,
renouncing his citizenship and pledging allegiance the Yankees was indeed a
major move on his part.

(He was even forced to rename the Confederate News Network to its current,
more politically correct, name.)


--Tim May



The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography
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Timothy C. May              | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
ComSec 3DES:   408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA  | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
Higher Power: 2^2,976,221   | black markets, collapse of governments.
"National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."