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Originally posted by bishop,
heh.. ph is a butterface. 
i don't think a special law to give autonomy to cyberspace is a plausible idea.. comrade's right, the government owns it and constitutionally has the authority to regulate it. a better idea would be to return to the long forgotten 4th amendment:
we could always go back to the good ol' days where government had to establish probable cause to search or spy on someone. |
I guess when all is said and done any effort to make cyberspace a totally free zone is impossible. But I thought nothing ventured nothing gained. Too bad about that, I will send the idea into the round file along with my law to ban the bra.
However I was not just trying to waste everyone time with a non-issue topic. In my opinion.
Someone noted the forth admendment. However the FBI or whatever department wants to raid your house is under the belief that the internet communications and downloads are public and not private, because what you relate goes over this network that can be reviewed by a number of persons along the way. And now the homeland security can order any webpage to list all the e-mail addresses of anyone order whatever they have if it might have political or criminal potentials. If you order the Koran and wear a turban, the might be probable cause for some agents. But I do not give much of a hoot anyway because if someone has a hate webpage, a place to gain information about building bombs, or movies that use children for sexual perverts to get off on, then let them harrass them and get that junk out of our face. Most of the time they would have no interest in you if you are not doing such things. But the main problem is when they cause trouble for people who are just protesting the establishment or who are organizing environmental groups, or even people who are just interested in guns and stuff like without intending some sort of rampage. What you do in cyberspace is the same thing as doing it in public according to the perspectives of law enforcement, so they do not view it as spying because anyone can observe what happens in a public place - but not sure if the new stalking law can be allied to police activity or if they are immune to that law?
But for now will bow to the majority opinion that an international law to protect freedom in cyberspace is not going to happen.
Technosoul.