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sounds like a good opportunity to bring back "letters of marque." These were less about authorizing ships to fight back against pirates, and more about authoriz
by condiment 6mo ago
sounds like a good opportunity to bring back "letters of marque." These were less about authorizing ships to fight back against pirates, and more about authorizing private to your army to find and capture pirate vessels with the expectation that they would be allowed to keep whatever loot they captured. sounds like we're taking a step in that direction as the Internet is being identified as Lawless as the sea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque
- foxyv 6mo agoI guess that would put a different spin on the idea of Software Piracy...
- RealityVoid 6mo agoI guess it would be more akin to smuggling at this point.
- aaron695 6mo ago[dead]
- monarchwadia 6mo agoAre you indirectly referencing this bill? https://burchett.house.gov/media/press-releases/burchett-introduces-bill-authorize-president-trump-issue-letters-marque-and https://burchett.house.gov/media/press-releases/burchett-int...
- Bratmon 6mo agoIt says something about modern Congress that when one of the powers explicitly granted to Congress became relevant for the first time in 100 years, their first instinct was to delegate it away to the President.
- hardlianotion 6mo agoHe could be referencing this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letter_of_Marque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letter_of_Marque
- tdiff 6mo ago> more about authorizing private to your army to find and capture pirate vessels I think important detail is that it authorised attacks on any foreign vessel (of a specific nation), not only on pirate ships.