Slashdot Mirror
John Gilmore interviewed by Greplaw
mpawlo writes "I have just published another one of those Greplaw interviews. This time, John Gilmore had the courtesy of answering a wide range of questions on various subjects such as terrorism and security, spam blocking, censorship, secret laws in airports and of course - sarongs. Gilmore starts: 'I'm a civil libertarian millionaire eccentric.' Enjoy!"
I know no one reads the stories they reply to, but do they read the comments they moderate? :)
This is coming from someone who is a stron supporter of the ACLU(I would be a member, but I am a cheap bastard) /. moderation is not supressing free speech(cept for the abuse of the underrated/overrated modifier which easily allows mods with agendas to push said agendas without getting caugh in meta-modding, but every system has flaws), because people can post whatever they want, I can just choose whether or not I want to read every GNAA troll.
So it is the right of some drunk driver to mow down a pedestrian and be able to get away with it because in the name of civil liberties, he shouldn't have to have a license plate and drivers license eh?
Next time someone close to you is killed by a drunk driver, think about that for a second, k?
Yes I agree that big brother should be kept out of your living room, but when you are on the road, you can very easily affect another citizen's right to "life, liberty and the persuit of happiness". This is what pisses me off most about these, "I can do whatever the fuck I feel like" civil libertarians, what you do can adversely affect other people.
Same goes with speech, you have the right to say whatever the fuck you want, but I also have the right not to listen to it if I so desire. Which is why
Just like you can do whatever the fuck you want on your own property, as long as you don't hurt anyone else, but once you get on the road, you have certain responsibilites. Don't want to abide by the rules? There is nothing stopping you from walking/riding a bike/taking the bus/taking a train etc. All of those things will get you from point A to point B, and your odds of hurting someone else, while not zero, are much lower than they are if you are driving a car or flying in a plane.
Simply put, if you want to travel anonymously, then don't drive or take a plane. For the rest of us, we will go along without our tinfoil hats enjoying the (relative) safety of knowing that if someone hits us, they will be hunted down using their license plate/driver's license and brought to justice.