[6.4]. Peter Huber, Orwell’s Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest (New York: The Free Press, 1994).
[6.5]. Sandy Sandford, “The intelligent island?” Wired, September/October 1993.
[6.6]. Rosalind Resnick, “Cyberbiz” column of July 3, 1995, published in the Miami Herald, on the Knight-Ridder wire and her Web site, http://www.netcreations.com. One of the best sites on the whole Net. Drop by!
[6.7]. Exon has announced plans not to run again—his term ends in 1997. But who knows what can happen in the meantime?
[6.8]. My favorite observation on the passion for censorship comes from Phil Kirby, a former editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times, by way of Nat Hentoff, in the book Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee. “Censorship,” Kirby said, “is the strongest drive in human nature; sex is a weak second.” Thanks to Rob Chatelle of the National Writers Union for bringing this gem to my attention.
[6.9]. The example of messages violating local standards comes from a syndicated column by Lawrence Magid that appeared in the Washington Post on March 13, 1995.
[6.10]. Buckley and George Will are the most famous conservative journalists in the United States. Among other accomplishments, Buckley is founder of the National Review. His comments appeared in an “On the Right” column released through the United Press Syndicate on February 24, 1995.
[6.11]. Perhaps the idea will have been changed by now to allow more freedom to librarians and the public.
[6.12]. David Buerger, “Our lives are quickly becoming an open book,” Communications Week, May 9, 1994, page 52.
[6.13]. Simson Garfinkel, PGP: Pretty Good Privacy (Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly & Associates, 1995), page 88.