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The next battlefield will have a different terrain, I suspect if I wanted to censor the Web for political power I would strike next at the freedom to securely e
by maeon3 15y ago
The next battlefield will have a different terrain, I suspect if I wanted to censor the Web for political power I would strike next at the freedom to securely encrypt internet connections between devices. We need a right to bear encryption right next to a right to bear arms, so that a nation of citizens can mobilize to protect itself from an out of control government.
- anamax 15y agoNeither a "right to bear arms" nor "free political speech/press" are actually all that protected by modern US jurisprudence. ("political" is important - pornography does have significant protections, far more than political speech.)
- emmett 15y agoWhat political speech exactly is censored in the US today?
- anamax 15y ago> What political speech exactly is censored in the US today? Take out an ad about a candidate and you'll find out. There's a whole federal bureaucracy, the FEC, devoted to regulating political speech. Many states (and some cities) also have campaigning laws. Citizens United changed this somewhat but ....
- eru 15y agoAnd most of the rest of the world doesn't have a right to bear arms.
- sukuriant 15y agoThat's not the point. The right to bear arms is part of the founding document that had to be written for the colonies to even sign the Constitution. Without every right in the Bill of Rights, we would never have been a nation. It doesn't matter if the rest of the world doesn't have this right. What matters is that we do, and any prohibition of it is evidence that the government is overstepping its bounds and performing unconstitutional acts by restricting us in ways explicitly disallowed.
- gee_totes 15y agoYour first sentence, IMHO, is a bit historically inaccurate. Have you heard of the Articles of Confederation? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_confederation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_confederation
- sukuriant 15y agoMy apologies. I suppose I gave more credit to something that, while deserving a lot of credit, wasn't actually as important as I made it out to be (it's still incredibly important, though)