At 11:55 PM -0700 8/23/00, Anonymous wrote:
> >Before you go off and dismiss this out of hand, think about it. If you
>>want to have a gathering of completely anonymous people, there will be no
>>way to prevent unwanted attendees. So, please either tell me why this is a
>
>While I think that it is not politically correct to organise cpunk meetings
>in the pighouse - I feel uncomfortable around people who intimidate and beat
>for pay - I do agree that there is no practical difference, anon-wise.
>
>I am just not sure that we can attract the desired audience if the venue
>is related to LEA. That is my only concern.
>
>But then, if we do not find any venue at all, we will have zero audience.
>
>Tim, do you think that rubbing shoulders with police is too high price
>to pay for getting, say, hundred people to use crypto ?
Of course.
Who the fuck cares, or should care, if 100 of the sheeple start using
crypto? What are we, bleeding heart altruists?
(Not to mention the practical fact that the original proposal was
some airy-fairy piece of bullshit: no one is going to go to some
conference at the SFPD site to "learn to use TCP/IP as an instrument
of personal empowerment," or whatever. Get real.)
--Tim May
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