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Jan. 18th, 2012 07:31 amI am not shutting this blog down in protest against the Internet security authoritarian bills, because, as the fellow I linked to yesterday said about his blog, "nobody will notice and nobody will care." Besides, you don't need me to shut LJ down: the Russian hackers will gladly do it for you, so the message would be kind of mixed.
I am, however, opposed to both bills. "Guilty until proven innocent on any random accusation" is always a bad way to run a legal system; so is "Guilty by association with those associated with those associated with the guilty." We had it out on these principles with the Commie scares of the 1950s; must we go through it again?
I will pause to notice, though, that other, even more horrifying bills have gone through Congress and even been signed into law. Here, for instance, after the commercial is a video of Jon Stewart talking about one from two weeks ago. And I have read about this in blogs, too, and good for those who've written objections to it, but you won't see quite as much coordinated online protest at something that's not aimed quite as directly at the playthings of the well-off techy class. We know where our priorities are, right, Herr Niemöller?
I am, however, opposed to both bills. "Guilty until proven innocent on any random accusation" is always a bad way to run a legal system; so is "Guilty by association with those associated with those associated with the guilty." We had it out on these principles with the Commie scares of the 1950s; must we go through it again?
I will pause to notice, though, that other, even more horrifying bills have gone through Congress and even been signed into law. Here, for instance, after the commercial is a video of Jon Stewart talking about one from two weeks ago. And I have read about this in blogs, too, and good for those who've written objections to it, but you won't see quite as much coordinated online protest at something that's not aimed quite as directly at the playthings of the well-off techy class. We know where our priorities are, right, Herr Niemöller?
