On Sep 27, 2006, at 4:38 PM, Bill Arnold wrote:
The Internet threatens the powers-that-be, so rather then form,
fund and
support a task force to fix these problems, they do nothing. Then one
day they'll declare the Internet a disaster and move in to "fix" it
with
controls such as a positive ID required for logon that will track
every
user and eliminate the concept of anonymity. With that done, people
will
be loathe to visit websites that, for example, talk about rebelling
against authority, because that will be a crime.
I think that that's a reach. If you want to put something on my
server, I *should* be able to identify you. That's what sending an
email is: putting a file onto someone else's machine. Browsing a
website is not the same at all.
-- Ed Leafe
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