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- From: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: WELL anonymity policy
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 00:05:49 GMT
- Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
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- Message-ID: <1haustINNa7u@morrow.stanford.edu>
- References: <1992Dec22.231114.17085@eff.org> <1h87qlINN53p@agate.berkeley.edu> <1ham10INNdi5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- In article <1ham10INNdi5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> an127@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
- (Korac MacArthur) writes:
-
- >If the big bad feds
- >really want to get ahold of a user's id, what is the difference between
- >letting them call the service provider (or show up with a warrant, which
- >is more affable) instead of just looking it up like anyone can do to a
- >non-anonymous account?
-
- What's the point? I thought we were talking about social
- privacy, not protection from prosecution.
-
-
- >Censorship and penny-ante, ass-covering policies do not appeal to me.
-
- The WELL policies are there to help shape a productive environment
- for the subscribers, not as a CYA measure. Don't be too quick
- to assume, merely because various bulletin board services are
- requiering identification for the sysops' protection, that the
- motivation is the same on the WELL.
- --
-
- Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com
- (415) 323-9000 x117 karish@pangea.stanford.edu
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