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free-speech and anonymity are related (Re: [Asrg] MTP drafty)

2003-03-05 14:59:50
Think about it, there is a relationship between free-speech and
anonymity.

The freest speech is the cryptographically protected anonymous kind
because the speaker knows there can be no physical world reprisals.

If I sign something I am less anonymous, and probably not anonymous at
all; therefore yes my speech becomes less free.

There are physical world analogies with the right for anonymous
political speech, leafletting etc.

Adam

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:30:51PM +0100, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 12:46:30PM -0800, Brad Templeton wrote:

Verifying senders with a signature would of course solve some problems,
but the free speech implications of this are pretty dramatic. 

Huh? Do free speech and sender verification/signatures mutually 
exclude each other?
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