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These restrictions remind of ITAR. Building a rocket for a hobby? Never talk to foreigners about it, lest they make nuclear rockets. If that doesn't faze you, r
by Joakal 15y ago
These restrictions remind of ITAR. Building a rocket for a hobby? Never talk to foreigners about it, lest they make nuclear rockets. If that doesn't faze you, remember that USA almost stopped ecommerce because of ITAR banning export of cryptography that was once declare a munition. Because they didn't want foreigners to have access to encryption research.
What will happen is that honest people will follow the government and suffer from lack of potential discoveries while foreigners have their own avian flu virus studies, including 'mutations' that the US Government can be unprepared for.
- crag 15y agoThis super virus was created simply cause the "scientists" could. What, they gonna learn infection rates from ferrets? Personally I would destroy the virus and hope everyone forgets about it. Not because I'm afraid of terrorists- I'm afraid of it getting out.
- Joakal 15y agoVaccines work because they infect people. Really.
- nextparadigms 15y agoI would normally agree with you, but on the other hand I'm even more afraid of Governments creating stuff like this in secret, and then doing who knows what with them. Open science is probably the way to go.
- oostevo 15y agoThere are some places where ITAR makes sense, even if it does overreach in areas like encryption or model rocketry. For example, I'd argue that it's a positive thing that Lockheed couldn't sell F-22s to [insert violent autocrat of the month] without some very significant reviews.
- Joakal 15y ago> There are some places where ITAR makes sense, even if it does overreach in areas like encryption or model rocketry. > For example, I'd argue that it's a positive thing that Lockheed couldn't sell F-22s to [insert violent autocrat of the month] without some very significant reviews. Lockheed's not honest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals Regardless, ITAR is a very broad law and a Cold War relic.