[E. Pluribus Unum]

OTOH, it's actually extremely easy to route around a lot of net censorship and control because the net is fundamentally not really censor friendly if you have any technical abilities at all.

The technical part is not the problem.

The problem is that circumventing the net censorship would be a crime in itself, and the programming tools would be defined as intent to circumvent the government's net safety precautions.

[JRandomFreeper]

Then 'eff 'em. It will become dangerous to enforce those rules.

/johnny

[zeugma]

The problem is that circumventing the net censorship would be a crime in itself, and the programming tools would be defined as intent to circumvent the government's net safety precautions.

Well, since I'm already a potential felon for having the audacity to want to watch DVDs on my Linux desktop (this is not a joke), having that other stuff isn't really going to add enough to it to make a difference, will it?

Stupid laws generate contempt for the rest of the law.