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a submission from me in response to PEARLS BEFORE SWINE
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 21:11:20 -0400
In a submission via Interesting People, Willam A. Frezza in a note titled "PEARLS BEFORE SWINE" said: "Lead by organizations like Mitch Kapor's Electronic Frontier Foundation and Ralph Nader's Taxpayer Assets Project, supported by a phalanx of tenured academics long accustomed to public subsidization, and supplied with emotional ammunition by grass roots workers like Ms. Schneider, these New Age Intellectual Poverty Pundits are determined to define, create, and manage a new form of public entitlement. " As a Board member of EFF I must take serious exception to Bill. EFF has never as an organization even remotely taken that position or anything like it. We as an organization pride ourselves on gathering a group of people on the Board and staff who cover the spectrum of opinions and political and economic leanings. We have one thing in common and that is to support the fundanmental rights of an american citizen as we go into the information age and to push, shove and tempt the nation to move into this future. Given this variety of people on the Board and Staff, you will hear individuals maybe taking such positions as INDIVIDUALS. I have never heard Mitch take that position nor have I heard that from the Board members whose statements I have read. It is certainly not the position of the EFF. **************************************************************************** Professor David Farber The Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems University of Pennsylvania + 1 610 274-8293 FAX 200 S. 33 rd Street + 1 800 946 4646 PIN # 1097266 PAGER Philadelphia PA 19104-6389 + 1 215 870 0175 cellular Home: + 1 610 274 8292 Home POB 424 + 1 215 898 9672 Secretary - Mike Felker 216 Good Hope Road (for Fedex) + 1 215 898-9508 Office Landenberg PA 19350-0424 Primary occupation -- Tele-techno-yenta Member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin "I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it" -- Voltaire ************************************************************************** The Electronic Frontier Foundation is working to protect your privacy. For more info about EFF and how to participate in our latest e-mail campaign for strong encryption, send mail to eff () eff org.
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