Scott Bennett wrote: > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:10:41 -0400 Ted Smith <ted...@gmail.com> > wrote:
>> You're conveniently ignoring countries like Sweden, Iceland, Estonia, >> where "socialist" Internet policies have resulted in some of the best >> environments of digital freedom. In fact, your list appears only to > > Am I, indeed? Let me see now...would that Sweden and Estonia happen > to be the same Sweden and Estonia that are members of the European Union, > that lovely organization issuing various directives requiring member states > to institute legislation and regulation inimical to freedom on the Internet? It is even worse than that. In Sweeden ISP's are forced to hand over a copy of every single byte that crosses state borders to the state. The FRA law: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/FRA_law