On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 12:38 +0200, Niels Elgaard Larsen wrote: > 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 >
Sweden has gotten hammered by US media companies, thanks to PirateBay. If it were up to the RIAA/MPAA/MAFIAA/BSA/whoever, I doubt anyone in the world would have Internet access.
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