One industry's terrorism is another man's Napster.
True, there's little hope of being able to challenge all these laws in
court, and even if possible, the Supreme Court is not that likely to
see things through cpunx lenses.
(There's also a side issue of legitimizing groups that don't always
have cpunkly interests in mind -- for instance, when the ACLU argues
against government surveillance but for a right to welfare, does the
good of the former balance out the harm of the latter?)
-Declan
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 06:03:56PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
> But there is no hope for legal and constitutional challenges. They
> use _our_ money to proliferate new travesties faster than groups like
> the ACLU and EFF and mount challenges, raise funds, and challenge
> these unconstitutional acts. And if, by some slim chance, a court
> strikes down one such law, they have a hundred slight variants on the
> law ready to go in a thousand other jurisdictions.
>
> It's hopeless. Only technology, and terrorism, will work.
