Dnia czwartek, 12 lutego 2015 02:35:03 grarpamp pisze:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote:
On 02/11/2015 13:17, goofyzrnssm@vfemail.net wrote:
If a `REAL-ID Internet Access' law were to gain traction in the U.S., how would such a law be enforced exactly?
Use your imagination.
Real ID enforcement would violate people's anonymity rights, which are very well protected in US (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymity#United_States).
We're not talking about books and soapboxing today, class.
Exactly. And remember that mainstream public and politicians see Teh Intertubes as "something completely different", a "virtual reality" in which laws and regulations do not apply. This includes any local constitution. Example: if you had people on post offices opening and reading all mail, people would revolt; you already have people reading your e-mail, and the public goes "that's bad, but meh". People don't see Internet as a tool, which it is. They see it as a new "domain", new "frontier", in which laws must only be created and human rights protections do not apply. That's why I find any "Internet Bills of Rights" as counter-productive. They promulgate this divided vision and while some might to some extent solve part of the problems with the Internet, come new communications technology and we have the very same problem. Instead of "Internet Bills of Rights" we need to make people and politicians understand that *the* Bill of Rights already pertains to the Internet. But I digress. tl;dr politicians and the general public don't see the anonymity thing the way you do, the Internet is this scary place full of trolls and "cyberhackers" that can take down the electric grid on a whim, and the only thing that can stop them is identifying every connection. For your security! -- Pozdrawiam, Michał "rysiek" Woźniak Zmieniam klucz GPG :: http://rys.io/pl/147 GPG Key Transition :: http://rys.io/en/147