shadowstriker86 said:
With sopa and the ndaa bills, I feel like we're starting to live in V for vendetta times, mass censorship, people being detained without trial never to be heard from again, hell I'd move to Canada or Britain but then they'd just ship my USAss back. Anyone else feel the same way?
Nah. Humans will always be evil, sucky, stupid and peculiar creatures.
What I find interesting, though, is this:
Just a couple of years back, everyone wanted to host their stuff on US soil, for reasons of freedom of speech and whatnot. Well, that did not prevent Germans from feeling the legal wrath from people with differing opinions. Poor Germans.
Now, it's pretty much poor everyone. Anyone hosting anything on US soil or just renting a specific TLD can seemingly turn into bottom-feeding lawyer fodder or get targeted by DOJ, randomly, instantly, thoroughly. Wow. Not good.
If the US really pulls an axis of evil on everyone in a sort-of reversal of what made them great, it might very well be about time to check out if the land of the free can meanwhile be found somewhere between Norilsk and Xuwen. It feels bad, but trying to make this recent development look good seem futile. I understand terror prevention. I can put up with being scanned at the airport. I can make myself accept limitations on luggage, drinks and nail clippers when travelling internationally. Closing down the internet and taking all the ludicrous legal capers of China, Iran, post-Nazi-denazified-censored-Germany to an international level seems to be very, very un-American to me.