"I even question Mike's point about the government's inability to ban books. Look at the difficulty in keeping PGP available in this country even though it is legal. Not only have FTP sites been steadily closed down, even the key servers have as well."
— Hal Finney (Politics vs Technology, 1994)
#government #censorship #politics #pgp
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