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The Internet As Govt Self Suicide Device
- To: grarpamp <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
- Subject: The Internet As Govt Self Suicide Device
- From: [email protected] (jim bell)
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 18:05:56 +0000 (UTC)
- In-reply-to: <CAD2Ti28mP7teW3-OTRYErtxPRvFXHAbrrjgqqF_N9yXxsUoO=g@mail.gmail.com>
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From: grarpamp <[email protected]>
On 6/7/16, jim bell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>Â From: juan <[email protected]>
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2016 18:23:17 +0000 (UTC)
> jim bell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >Apparently there are a number of easy-to-describe improvements which
>> >could be made to the TOR protocol
Perhaps. Though I think tor's basic design and inertia
may be unsuited to GPA resistant mods, such that new
project[s] would be better ground for trialing that. Doesn't
mean that current nets can't be drawn from.
>> >TOR is a net positive,
>For quite some use cases, just not all use cases.
Yes, that's why I said a "net positive".
> I've argued for years that the invention of the Internet will eventually be
> seen as a very slow-motion suicide by government.
>Gov's don't self suicide.
Usually, that's true. Â The most obvious counter-examples today include Venezuela and Greece. Â There is a difference, albeit small, between a government taking an action to deliberately kill itself, as opposed to a government taking an action will will eventually cause that government to be killed. Â To a first approximation, both amount to "suicide".
> However they may piss other
>folks off, who then rise to kill them.
I include that kind of event as being "suicide".     Jim Bell
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