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May imagines electronic markets in which people exchange messages, negotiate contracts and transact without disclosing their legal identities. Reputation, rather than a civil name, becomes an organising principle. His accompanying 1992 message distinguishes the earlier manifesto from its later circulation on the mailing list.
Can financial privacy and durable reputation coexist without legal-name identity?
Hughes describes privacy as control over disclosure rather than universal secrecy. His cash-purchase example separates the information needed to complete a transaction from the buyer’s identity. Cryptography, anonymous communication and electronic money become practical means of limiting unnecessary disclosure.
What does a seller actually need to know about a buyer?
Barlow contests the application of territorial state authority to online communities. He argues that those communities should develop their own norms and mechanisms for resolving conflict, and connects freedom of expression to an internet that crosses physical borders.
How should communities govern themselves when their members live across many jurisdictions?