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Subject: [FORWARD] IS CYBERSPA
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mech@eff.org (Stanton McCandlish)
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation

Peter McDermott <peter@petermc.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>Chris Katopis   -- Legislative Counsel, Rep. Sonny Bono (R-CA)

Stanton:
>He's apparently been dropped from the lineup.
>
>What I see here are a bunch of clams with one or two dupes thrown
>in for leavening. (Evidently, the price was right.)
>
>Look more closely. What you had was a couple of Scientologists, and lot
>of other people, including content providers, lawyers, and online service
>providers.  An apropos mix for a debate about online int-prop.
>
>Why is there nobody from EFF invited?
>
>How do you know no one was invited?  At least Esther and Barlow probably
>were, but they are busy, and *EFF has no organizational position on
>intellectual property issues*, only on civil liberties issues.
>
>Is the Cyberlaw Institute the
>Clams attempt to usurp the roles and functions of the EFF?
>
>No, that's Task Force for Responsibility and Freedom on the Internet
>(AKA, judging from the TRFN acronym, Taskforce for Responsibility and
>Freedom on the Net).  http://www.theta.com/trfn/
>
>They me asked for a listing in our indexes of civil liberties groups, but
>investigating their homepages, I find that they are a CoS agency, and
>given our current opposition to CoS's legal tactics on the net, listing
>them would be a conflict of interests for me. <shrug>
>
>Laugh in the face of this cultist PR spectacle. Expose these paid
>cultist lackeys as the corrupt force that they are.
>
>You're way off track here.
>--
><A HREF="http://www.eff.org/~mech/">          Stanton McCandlish
</A><HR><A HREF="mailto:mech@eff.org">        mech@eff.org
</A><P><A HREF="http://www.eff.org/">         Electronic Frontier Foundation
</A><P><A HREF="http://www.eff.org/A/">       Online Activist           </A>

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