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Shouldn't OffNow go further and propose legislation that impacts the telcos and all other companies within its borders that co-operate with the NSA without putt
by malandrew 13y ago
Shouldn't OffNow go further and propose legislation that impacts the telcos and all other companies within its borders that co-operate with the NSA without putting up a fight? Take AT&T for example. Near as I can tell, it has been one of the worst offenders and greatest facilitators. For a state to take direct action against the interstate business model of AT&T and other telcos, provides a great economic incentive for AT&T to actively fight back against mass surveillance in the form of challenging NSLs and lobbying against increases in surveillance state powers.
If we want to promote a political environment with greater states rights, you need to promote a legal framework where most of our goods and services are provided by organizations that cannot easily grow to be larger than a state because the cost of being interstate presents so many transactional costs to make it less competitive.
- zmanian 13y agoThis is a future area where the anti-authoritarian left and right might be able to work together towards a less corporate system.