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An American cryptographer, Zimmermann created PGP, making strong cryptography accessible to everyone and defending digital privacy as a right, becoming a reference for crypto-anarchism and civil liberties.
Political axes
Phil Zimmermann leans further toward liberty than 93% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Power is where Phil Zimmermann stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Phil Zimmermann sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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The closest among the 243 ideologies
Current founded by Max Stirner in The Ego and Its Own (1844), which rejects the state, morality, religion and rights as spooks and proposes voluntary unions of egoists who associate only while it serves them.
Current that unites individual freedom, markets, and democracy with the ecological agenda, defending sustainability, rights, and innovation to reconcile economic prosperity with effective environmental protection.
Political tradition that places individual freedom at the center, defending rights, tolerance, the rule of law, a market economy, and limits on power, with government subject to the consent of citizens.
The most distant ideology
Clerical FascismThird Position22%
An American essayist, Bourne sharply criticized militarism and nationalism, coining the idea that war is the health of the state, and championed a cultural cosmopolitanism open to diversity and freedom.
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