Unplug the internet, or go to jail.

[strongaxe]

Read it, and weep (unless your name is Kafka, then you're familiar with the concept): http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20081128005538214
An amicus curiae brief submitted by the EFF is here: http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/US_v_Drew/Drew_Amicus.pdfThe basic gist of the situation it his

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[sixclaws_panda]

Sooner or later everyone's going to wear those masks from V of Vendetta.

[maxauburn]

This, of course, is illogical.

If taken to it's furthest extreme, it
could set a precedent for EVERYONE going
to prison for failing to live up to
anyone else's expectations.

Prisons would soon become overflowing
with new inmates.

Therefore, the Moon would have to
become a penal colony.

[strongaxe]

There were two related stories just this week:

Australia has asked Google to censor YouTube videos that Australia would consider unrated - and Google has thankfully refused. Otherwise, they (and likely every other web site on the planet) would be constrained by the laws and morality of the most restrictive countries. Imagine not being allowed to show women's faces because Saudi Arabia doesn't like it?

In a disturbingly similar story, an American web site operator was convicted (and jailed) for obscenity because ONE community in the southeast found it obscene, and a US circuit court in Georgia upheld that. Let's hope it is reversed on appeal. Otherwise, comments like the above would apply here also.

[maxauburn]

The irony is that, in BOTH instances you'd mentioned, it's most likely religous people
who are behind this.. NOT your typical pie - bake - and raffle church goers - but, rather, it is the religious extremists - the ones who feel that it's their destiny to control
others, and to impose their will upon them.

These are usually the ones who've read the bible, and missed the most important messages:

A)Live, and let live.
B)Love everyone and do your best to help others.
C)Be a good neighbor.

And they tend to be the most insecure, least forgiving, and most hateful humans that you could ever have the misfortune to encounter.

[strongaxe]

Yes, it's sad how that works.

Or look at the Proposition 8 fight in California. The "Yes on 8" people, before the election, threatened donors to the "No on 8" campaign that unless they donated an equal or greater amount to "Yes on 8", they would publish their names.

Yet, now, the same people are crying for anonymity, saying that revealing their own names would place their lives in jeopardy. So much for "do unto others what you would have them do unto you". What hypocrisy!