When I started saying it, I was thinking more in terms of technological control. Although (extra-)legal developments in the U.S. are making the legal aspects i

When I started saying it, I was thinking more in terms of technological control. Although (extra-)legal developments in the U.S. are making the legal aspects in some ways more similar. Increasingly, "everything" is illegal (or, at least, verboten), depending upon the government's interest in pursuing/prosecuting/punishing a particular case -- or not. (I know the two environments aren't at anything like parity, but the trends worry me.)