Good "Economist" article on Cyberspace

[I'm getting no Cypherpunks list traffic today, only mail sent to me
directly, so I apologize if this has come up already.]

The Jan 14-20 issue of "The Economist" has a good article on "Who
speaks for cyberspace?,"  which does a good job of summarizing the
civil libertarian arguments and why the EFF "imploded."

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"Little wonder that many Internet pioneers thought they had stumbled
upon an electronic Utopia....If a single set of beliefs can be said to
dominate the politics of cyberspace, it is radical libertarianism..."

About the withdrawal of the EFF from the political fray:

"That leaves cyberspace's radical libertarians without a voice in
Washington. They're probably delighted."

I know I am.

--Tim May


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Right Tim it was a great article in the Economist Tradition.  I'll post 
it as soon as it makes it into the databases.

Unblievable Barlow Quote:

On-line purists might want nothing to do with government, but government 
was likely to intrude anyway.  So the EFF sought to minimise the 
intrusion; "to keep Pharoh from following us into the Red Sea," as Mr. 
Barlow puts it.


I *want* Pharoh to follow us into the Red Sea, myself.

DCF

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