At 7:39 PM -0700 5/10/01, Eric Cordian wrote:
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>Of course I can sue. But that's a giant waste of my time, and unless I
>sustain at least five figure damages as a result of their actions, it's
>not really worth picking up the phone to call the lawyer.
Such lawsuits are inconsistent with a free society. More generally,
the whole idea of torts, outside of contract law, is bogus. The
belief that one party can sue another based purely on the notion of
"damages," when no contract or consideration or concrete property
right was present is bogus.
(This misapprehension is what is leading to Alice the Property Owner
suing John her Neighbor because she believes his unkempt front yard
is hurting her property values. Yet can John send her a bill if he
plants a beautiful front yard and Alice's apparent property value
increases?)
If someone points out that Eric Cordian is a homosexual pedophile,
this is what a free society is all about. Thinking some judge or jury
will decide what is "truth" is nonsense.
I think Eric Cordian needs to sit down and think these issues through.
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>When everything gets linked up, any flatfoot in any jerkwater town will be
>able to look at the Echols database, the CPAC database, the PETA database,
>the Eco-Terrorist Database, or any of many other sources of information
>from the comfort of his copcar terminal, to see who the bored housewives
>and self-loathing homosexuals of the world have this week accused of
>molesting children, kicking dogs, cutting giant redwoods, or not accepting
>Jesus Christ as their personal savior.
>
>So what we really have evolved here is the Soviet-style virtual
>neighborhood, with the nosey woman on every block, reporting back to the
>higher-ups in the Party on everyones political leanings and loyalty, to be
>added to their Party files, implemented in a distributed fashion via IP.]\
This is just now dawning on you?
>This aspect of the Net has now overwhelmed the "Worldwide Conversation" on
>every conceivable topic which the Net originally enabled. I know few
>people today who would take a politically incorrect position on any
>controversial topic from a real name account, lest the Virtual Vigilantes
>and other do-gooders of the world decide to screw with them, their
>families, their jobs, their landlords, and their bank accounts.
I say what I think, whether it offends the lesbians, the "people of
color," or the Jewish power elite.
If they try to screw with my job, fat chance. If they try to screw
with my landlord, impossible. If they try to screw with my bank
account, hasn't happened yet. Somehow I doubt the Militant Bald
Lesbians Against Whitemale Oppression will be able to convince my
banks and brokerages to fiddle with my accounts...they answer to the
higher authority of reputation.
--Tim May
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Timothy C. May [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corralitos, California
Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon
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