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Yall techies out there we have to come up with something new to retain communication."
That would be difficult.
Paragraph (b) of the revised definition explicitly sets forth the Department's requirement of authorization to release information into the ''public domain.'' Prior to making available ''technical data'' or software subject to the ITAR, the U.S. government must approve the release through one of the following:...or (4) another U.S. government official with authority to allow the ''technical data'' or software to be made available to the public.
They also would construe it as applying to any means of communication or publishing that works like the Internet. And imagine, for example, a private e-mail list being made "available to the public." And what form of electronic communication is private?
The attacks on human rights (AKA constitutional rights and civil rights) must be stopped. Otherwise, technical knowledge will only be shared within the true technical class: the people feared so much by the bipartisan political class (from rural areas to inner cities), we, who once manufactured most of the things that you use (and will again).
That wouldn't be a good situation for anyone, either, in my opinion. Although every political bandwagon is moving against the constitutional rights of the majority now perceived as peasants, our constitutional rights should be for everyone. Look at the increases in costs of owning firearms--not so much for some, but by outward appearances, insurmountable for others.
We're headed toward a worldwide economic collapse with many causes. All who have designs on controlling others will fall. In the years to come, attacking a technically inclined person or family (builders, those who repair, those who make useful things--all with their own skilled hands) might be like attacking a willow only to find out that it turns into a grinder.
I wasn’t thinking so much about tech info, though that is probably even more important, but about just contact and keeping up to date, like with FR and political action. All of this stuff is bit by bit going to be banned from the net as pernicious content, or even as “false” content like true facts and surmises about AGW and the like, or dissemination about news of the area by area banning of fracking or whatever. How do we sidestep the net? I suppose systems will arise like somehow piggybacking on cell phone systems or such but it needs to be something known to the government that the government can’t shut down. It would be necessarily known to the government or it would be too small and limited to be available to most of us. As you can tell I am not tech competent myself. I am a user not a geek. I tried getting into it years ago but could not follow a flow chart.