On Tuesday 28 September 2010 00:38:51 you wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Matthew Toseland <t...@amphibian.dyndns.org > > wrote: > > > One very bad thing about this, should it pass (which depends mostly on > > whether the Tea Party folk actually defend the constitution, which seems > > unlikely) > > I don't agree here - the teabaggers are a relatively small group of angry > white economic conservatives who only really agree on the fact that they all > hate Obama. They only get the air-time that they do because they make for > good TV. The teabaggers didn't exist when the Clipper Chip was defeated in > the 90s. You are going to have almost every technology company in the US up > in arms about this, as they were with the Clipper Chip.
They make up ALL of the new Senate candidates. > > > and be upheld (which is a more plausible battleground) is that we are > > dependant on paypal. Even if we move outside the US, paypal would have to > > kick us, and nobody trusts any other service. Same would be true of Google > > Checkout; we might be able to get credit card handling from some > > non-US-based bank (like WorldPay), but it'd be expensive. > > I don't know if its necessarily true that we could no-longer use Paypal, but > in any case I think this thing passing is actually quite a remote > possibility. > > > Plus once it happens in the US it will happen everywhere else... Combined > > with laws in Europe allowing blocking copyright infringing sites (xenu.net? > > wikileaks.org?), things could get very bad. > > Ultimately we can move development onto Freenet itself if it came to it, but > I really think it is unlikely that it will. There are so many powerful > groups that will be opposed to this. Hopefully you are right. And it will reinforce an important precedent - that restricting software is very dodgy in the US.
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