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December 19, 2005
Evading prohibitions
Evading prohibitions: Two articles from the weekend's general news seemed to me to have structural similarities... the above link goes to an ArsTechnica article about political efforts in the US to prohibit hardware which does not respect an anti-capture flag in a digital stream... here's a Washington Post article about political efforts in China to prohibit certain speech. In China people are discussing under-reported current events through allusion and code -- in the US any such prohibition will strengthen the blackmarket networks in banned hardware (just one such machine can disrespect the copying flag enough to make a new stream without the flag). These prohibition movements don't seem to synch up to reality well, 'cause they never seem to expect the inevitable counter-movements, and what actually happens as other parties react....
Posted by John Dowdell at December 19, 2005 3:37 PM