-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 12:09:08PM +0200, Tom Vogt wrote:
"James A.. Donald" wrote:
As much as that may suck, there isn't a whole lot we can do about it. Besides, in the new world of globalization, I think we should be worrying more about corporations than about the NSA.
Have you been sealed in a box the last ten years? Companies may send you junk mail. Governments will confiscate your property and put you in jail,.
seems there's two people who spent the last century or so in a box. companies buy/bribe/lobby governments into passing laws that will make the government throw you in jail (on the expense of the gov) in case you anger the corp.
MPAA/DVDCCA vs. The Internet, anyone?
There's that, as well as the fact that if a company is rich/powerful enough, it can do practically whatever the fuck it wants, without much fear of reprisal.
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