[NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd)

Fri Oct 19 20:39:34 UTC 2001

If it bothers you all so much, then put together a petition, circulate
it at NANOG, send the results to congress.

... petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Repeat at IETF.

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:41:02 PDT, Randy Bush said:
> 
>>>Somewhere along with the power to vote particular politicians in or out
>>>must come some respect for the laws those people create, even the ones we
>>>don't think are perfect.
>>>
>>if i and others had followed your advice, african-americans would still
>>ride in the back of the bus, we would still have atmospheric atomic
>>testing, and we would probably still be losing american and viet namese
>>lives in viet nam and those on the streets and campuses of the country who
>>disagreed with a bunch of now-convicted felons.
>>
> 
> So you're saying, for instance, that the *proper* thing to do if you disagree
> with the anti-circumvention rules that the DMCA added to 17 USC 1201 is to just
> go ahead and break them, or that the proper thing to do is to lobby to get
> the law fixed?
> 
> I'd suggest that the right thing to do is to lobby your congresscreatures,
> unless you're a visiting Russian programmer who wants to be a test case....
> 
> Yes, sometimes breaking the law in order to force a test case so there's
> a judicial review of the constitutionality is required.  But unless you're
> trying to be either a test case or a martyr, you're stuck with the law until
> it's changed.
> 

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