IP: Re: Lynne Cheney's got her little list

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 23:26:09 -0600
> Subject: Re: IP: Lynne Cheney's got her little list
> From: Virginia Postrel <vpostrel@dynamist.com>
> To: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>
> Despite ACTA's adept use of her name for publicity purposes (and they are
> incredibly good at publicity and fundraising, if little else), Lynne Cheney
> has nothing to do with the organization today and has on several occasions
> declared publicly that she hasn't read their "report." I say this not
> because I'm a big fan of hers, which I'm not (although I like her husband),
> but because her name is giving credibility to an organization which doesn't
> deserve it--and its enemies, by equating Cheney with the organization, are
> helping it enormously.
>
> If your readers would like to advance academic freedom and make the people
> at ACTA jealous rather than proud to be attacked, they can donate to the
> Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (http://www.thefire.org),
> which maintains a consistent defense of freedom of speech on campus and has
> done so in the face of enormous criticism (and hate emails) since 9/11. (I
> am on FIRE's board of advisors, a politically diverse group.)
>
> As an aside, ACTA apparently lifted the HTML code for the FIRE website to
> create its own. Unfortunately, they did not lift FIRE's principles as well.
>
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