Thread: America

Originally Posted by phantomotap

That only holds so far as other governments are willing to play to the backwards facing political pressure.

Well so far the US has most european countries dancing to their tune, Sweden is an outright prostitute at this point.

I realize that most governments probably will, to a point, in the short term, but if other governments fight such nonsense themselves the internet should be safe despite nonsense like "SOPA" where it all begins with the citizens of other countries.

Let me put it this way, everyone should be watching their civil liberties. The US gets the finger in this thread, but many governments have laws in proposal which would seek to control what you see and do online much beyond the reach of traditional law.

I completely agree. The most recent example is Camerons "porn"-filter.

Originally Posted by whiteflags

That's really mysterious.

I'm curious for completely separate reasons, though: What made Lavabit different?

Lavabit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They provided privacy for their users, more so than conventional mail services.

Originally Posted by phantomotap

many governments have laws in proposal which would seek to control what you see and do online much beyond the reach of traditional law.

Indeed. England is about to (if they haven't yet) block pornography on the internet, using traffic filtering, in the name of "protecting children." I can't figure out how it got to the point where parents just don't care to be parents anymore, and expect the government to do the parenting.