On Friday 01 October 2010 18:01:27 Robert Hailey wrote: > > On Sep 30, 2010, at 11:12 AM, xor wrote: > > > Well, it does sound insane. > > Insane proposals DO appear in politics, but luckily it doesn't mean > > that they > > will get through. And I doubt it. > > But the problem is that they do get through, like the Digital TV > broadcast requirements and the broadcast flag? > > There is some weird political subthought that people cannot be > entrusted with effective or dangerous tools...
Some things get through (DMCA, simulated child porn ban), and are repeatedly reintroduced if they are struck down. Some things don't (such as the anti-crypto laws, of which this is only the latest incarnation of at least four such proposals over the last 20 years). -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20101001/5bd86839/attachment.pgp>
