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I just looked over an article in US News and World Report today.  The cover
was a badge with the words "Cyber Cops" on it.  Guess which article I
scanned.
 
"Is Anything Safe in Cyberspace?"
 
I think it came over okay.  Quoted Chaum, mentioned the positive uses of
remailers, had an extensive sections on privacy and on free speech.  It
was somewhat sympathetic to Clipper, didn't really take the protests
seriously.  Mentioned anonymous ecash.  It also had a quote skewering the
highway metiphore, "It's organic".
 
This was all after the four horsemen were trotted out, in all their glory.
If anyone looked at only the first six inches, it sounded like an attack on
the net as a whole.
 
I'ld give it a 4 on an objective scale, 7 compared to what we expect.
 
 
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On Mon, 23 Jan 1995, Nathan Zook wrote:

> This was all after the four horsemen were trotted out, in all their glory.
> If anyone looked at only the first six inches, it sounded like an attack on
> the net as a whole.
>  
> I'ld give it a 4 on an objective scale, 7 compared to what we expect.

I just read this piece the other day. Had people from FLETC talking about 
people being "victimized by information" and included lines that 
doublespeaked supporting freedom of speech while asking what types of 
speech should be made illegal, making these two contradictory ideas seem 
perfectly compatible and natural.

- dog

slowdog wrote:

> I just read this piece the other day. Had people from FLETC talking about 
> people being "victimized by information" and included lines that 
> doublespeaked supporting freedom of speech while asking what types of 
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> speech should be made illegal, making these two contradictory ideas seem 
> perfectly compatible and natural.

Slowdog is exactly right! This whole debate we're seeing is a perfect
example of "doublethink," in which two opposing ideas are held in
one's head at the same time, eventually eroding all principles
(so that if four fingers are held up, but the State says "five," then
it really _is_ five fingers being held up).

I first read "1984" in around 1966, when I was in the 8th grade, and
it has stuck with me ever since. No other novel has added as many
basic linguistic and political ideas to the language as this novel--by
yet another member of the Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories!

Big Brother, Thought Police, thoughtcrime, doublespeak, doublethink,
Big Brother is Watching You!, War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery,
sexcrime, unperson, and probably several other terms I've left
out. All are part of our language.

Too bad people on both the left and the right are missing the lesson.

Any Cypherpunk who hasn't read this novel should run out tonight to
the All-Nite Barnes and Borders Megastore and buy a copy.


--Tim May, Citizen-Unit 227-80-5894

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> I first read "1984" in around 1966, when I was in the 8th grade, and
> it has stuck with me ever since. No other novel has added as many
> basic linguistic and political ideas to the language as this novel--by
> yet another member of the Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories!
> 
> Big Brother, Thought Police, thoughtcrime, doublespeak, doublethink,
> Big Brother is Watching You!, War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery,
> sexcrime, unperson, and probably several other terms I've left
> out. All are part of our language.
> 
> Too bad people on both the left and the right are missing the lesson.
> 
> Any Cypherpunk who hasn't read this novel should run out tonight to
> the All-Nite Barnes and Borders Megastore and buy a copy.

And while you're at it, you might want to take a look at Orwell's
classic essay, "Politics and the English Language."


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