Reply #189: Peer reviewed

[DissedByBush]

"in spite of all the peer reviewed science"

In spite of all the agenda-driven peer reviewed science. It's like Intelligent Design pushed by the creationists. There's an agenda, don't trust them.

"By democratizing information, strengthening democracy; our First Amendment Right of Free Speech"

... and then trying to quash the privacy that allows us such freedom of speech on the Internet.

"His work in waking the people up on a critical issue which threatens humanity's survival "

His work scaring the bejeezus out of people overhyping global warming in an effort to create more government power and personal glory.

"Your bear false witness when you say "He envisioned a world where people could not keep secrets from their government.""

What to search for in parentheses along with his name. Clipper chip ("clipper chip"). Key Escrow ("key escrow"). Keeping strong encryption's free availability suppressed ("itar encryption"). Trying to prosecute the person most responsible for bringing strong encryption to the masses (phil zimmermann), dropped after three years of persecution in the face of -- you didn't guess it -- his right to FREE SPEECH.

"I would love nothing more than to have lived in a world where Al Gore was President over these past eight years"

The general consensus among old-time online rights activists (before the general masses had the WWW) is that him not winning the 2000 election is what gave us this freedom. I can send an encrypted email to fellow activists or have a phone conversation over the Internet (Zimmerman released PGPfone in 1995 giving encrypted phone calls over the Internet. VOIP isn't a new thing.) knowing that the government will never be able to snoop on it with or without a court order. Gore tried to prevent us from being able to do that. I am glad he failed.

Bush was clueless on the whole thing and didn't pursue Gore's agenda. We did get something much worse than Gore in 2000, but that makes Al Gore good only in a relative sense to Bush, which would make almost anyone look good.