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People working on startups are resourceful. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to find free wifi/3g/get cable/adsl from another provider etc etc etc I agree th
by bumblebird 17y ago
People working on startups are resourceful. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to find free wifi/3g/get cable/adsl from another provider etc etc etc
I agree the law is stupid and ill thought out and puts the whole idea of innocent until proven guilty out the window, but technology is hard for some people like unelected politicians to grasp. So they mess up, and make stupid laws.
Meanwhile, people just sidestep and make the laws useless and irrelevant.
- iuygfhn 17y agoSuppose you called your site say "hacker news" and some local councilor decided that "hacker" was offensive - under this law they can simply delete your domain registration.
- bumblebird 17y agoThen you'd post about it on twitter+reddit and the whole baying mob of sheep that compose the modern internet would track down said councilor and make their life a living hell forever.
- Renai 17y agoNot everyone is so popular, and not all audiences are so political.
- algorias 17y agoExactly. And that kind of action shouldn't be the only way of enforcing your rights.
- antipaganda 17y agoEspecially since the Dark Side can afford to hire a LOT more lawyers, who are second only to politicians in their ability to make your life a living hell.
- cabalamat 17y agoSaid councillor probably wouldn't be on the internet. Or he'd only check his email once a week and wouldn't notice.
- bumblebird 17y agoPeople on reddit+twitter hunt people down in real life all the time.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoOnly if they hurt animals.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoYeah that councillor would never be able to visit reddit again. That would totally stick it to them. Well they might have to change their username, or just never visit it, ...