On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Tim May wrote:
So what? A move by the g8 to protect the "global infrastructure" of the Internet, (polspeak for protecting their ability to control what the sheep think) followed by laws passed in individual countries, would force remops to operate solely in "rogue states", and messages to and from them could be screened out pretty simply.
Handwaving. The First Amendment will not likely be abandoned because some Marxists in France concluded that there should be limitations on what people mail to other people.
"Conforming to international treaties" *is* the hip way to circumvent the constitution. The latest copyright term extension gives a fine example -- conformance being used as a reason to walk over the concept of copyrights as being granted for "limited times". All you need to gut an amendment is widespread hysteria/stupidity. Drug enforcement works on the former, 1A exceptions for commercial and sexual speech the latter. Or just interpret existing law creatively, e.g. bring spoliation charges against remailer operators. If people are worked up enough, nobody will object to bringing those nasty Osama collaborators to the ground. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:decoy@iki.fi, gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front