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The Libertarian community has been on top pf this sort of thing for decades and would surely be able to offer a lot of "see I told you so" as well. Remember tha

The Libertarian community has been on top pf this sort of thing for decades and would surely be able to offer a lot of "see I told you so" as well. Remember that analogy about how people said SOPA provisions were like shutting down the Ritz Carlton because occasionally politicians cheated on their wives there? Take away a few layers of class, and there have been some motels that the government has seized (or tried to sieze) because occasionally tenants would do drug deals there. A handy article on the topic that was easy for me to find: http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/26/the-forfeiture-racket/singlepage http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/26/the-forfeiture-racket/... In short, don't hold your breath waiting for your data to come back.

rcfox 15y ago
> The Libertarian community Note for the future: This adds no value to your comment, and makes you look like you're trying to spin this story in someway to benefit your political alignment.
- fennecfoxen 15y ago
  It's a shout-out to the parent poster's use of the phrase "the hacker community" and its own attendant "I-told-you-so"-ism (which I'm pretty sure is construed as a negative). It's a community I personally completely identify with but I've read some of their work and respect certain parts of it. Here, let me write a 50-page essay on the minutae of my political views, that'll be real interesting reading for the HN people. cut me some slack, jack.
  - fennecfoxen 15y ago
    somehow i dropped the words 'not' out of 'a community i personally completely identify with'. I blame acute lack of caffeine. my shipment of Tonx coffee was delayed 2 days on account of MLK day and the local postal worker. my apologies.
- CamperBob 15y ago
  Gee, maybe that's because some "political alignments" are substantially better than others when it comes to this sort of issue.
- cliveholloway 15y ago
  I would have just pointed out that the phrase "Libertarian community" is an oxymoron, heh.

rcfox 15y ago

> The Libertarian community Note for the future: This adds no value to your comment, and makes you look like you're trying to spin this story in someway to benefit your political alignment.

fennecfoxen 15y ago
It's a shout-out to the parent poster's use of the phrase "the hacker community" and its own attendant "I-told-you-so"-ism (which I'm pretty sure is construed as a negative). It's a community I personally completely identify with but I've read some of their work and respect certain parts of it. Here, let me write a 50-page essay on the minutae of my political views, that'll be real interesting reading for the HN people. cut me some slack, jack.
- fennecfoxen 15y ago
  somehow i dropped the words 'not' out of 'a community i personally completely identify with'. I blame acute lack of caffeine. my shipment of Tonx coffee was delayed 2 days on account of MLK day and the local postal worker. my apologies.
CamperBob 15y ago
Gee, maybe that's because some "political alignments" are substantially better than others when it comes to this sort of issue.
cliveholloway 15y ago
I would have just pointed out that the phrase "Libertarian community" is an oxymoron, heh.