That's correct, but a "libertarian society" is not necessarily achievable and striving for it may not be a realistic goal to set for oneself. The beauty of these tools for liberation is they can be used unilaterally, you don't need society to agree with your use of them. If you need permission from another man to use a tool for liberation, the tool is not good enough to serve its purpose and needs improving on.

Finney's point was that until you convince people in the real world to care about privacy and autonomy, what he saw as a libertarian society could never be achieved. 

siggy47

Politics_And_Law

A Cypherpunk Disagreement That Lives On

If a government or some other thug can coerce you for communication, you're doing the communication wrong.

Satoshi was a good example of how to communicate right. He was immune to physical bullets, because he did actually live in cyberspace.