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Re:Did Shutting Down Silk Road Make the World a More Dangero... by macspoofing on Friday October 04, 2013 @01:23PM (#6496656)
>Here's a question for the techno-libertarians stepping up to say the government has no right to shut down sites like Silk Road...Where do you derive this supposed natural right for anonymity on the internet

Techno-libertarians would care more about the right of individuals to freely trade with each other. Anonymity is merely a necessary component of trading controlled substances under an oppressive regime.

I think most libertarians would agree there is no intrinsic right to anonymity.

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Re:Did Shutting Down Silk Road Make the World a More Dangero... by john_b on Friday October 04, 2013 @03:10PM (#6497306)
> "I think most libertarians would agree there is no intrinsic right to anonymity."

As a libertarian, I disagree. The ability to converse, trade, and move about privately is intrinsically necessary to support other fundamental rights. In my view, anonymity (which is just a special case of privacy where a person chooses to reveal no personal information) as an intrinsic right is derived from this necessity.

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Re:Did Shutting Down Silk Road Make the World a More Dangero... by return0 on Friday October 04, 2013 @02:51PM (#6497192)
> there is no intrinsic right to anonymity

wouldn't the opposite be against individual liberty?

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