-- On 4 Jul 2002 at 10:10, Major Variola (ret) wrote:

Nations register xerox machines. They confiscate radio receivers. They can close down the media. They require location tech in cell phones. They require CALEA in telco switches. They bust machinists who make guns as a hobby. Sure, bits can be copied and stored a lot easier. Deploying them isn't so easy. Look at the pedo-image busts.

While deploying them is not easy, neither is stopping them. I recently downloaded everything in the anime.multimedia newsgroup. I got a handful of anime movies and a huge collection of non anime images of preteen female children engaged in a variety of sexual acts, presumably because the newsgroup binaries.pictures.erotica.preteen.female gets poor distribution. The government's ability to coerce is limited. They will not go over the top, and attempt measures requiring a totalitarian state, but at the same time they are probing around, looking for measures where they can get substantial affects at acceptable levels of coercion. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG Qb8Zpd5gsEOfBQf8F4TilhD/omGt4K22z648UPfr 2icW83/avg4aE/oPfes5a10T0vmSqOZ0u1R+ZLyuX