From: Rüdiger (rkoch@rkoch.org)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 08:28:33 MST
--- Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se> wrote:
> Overall, it may have a
> chilling effect on the debate, and represents a dangerous step
> that should be opposed firmly and loudly.
The problem seems to be that it gets fashionable in the US and Europe
to transform democratic structures into bureaucratic and eventually
totalitarian structures. Maybe it doesn't make that much sense any more
to oppose each single law and instead try to remind the law making
bodies that they must take the respective constitution more serious
than the lobbyists. This seems most urgent in the US which is already
sliding down a slippery road to totalitarism.
Personally, I find the current copyright craze even more scary. And
when I read how eagerly McCarthy's heirs (Homeland foobar) grab power
in the US I am glad to live on the east side of the Atlantic ocean.
Hope the Americans don't wait 'till witch hunting starts.
-Rudiger
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