<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://6118/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Michael,<div><br><div><div>On Dec 27, 2012, at 8:16 PM, michael gurstein <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I made those points in the context of taxation but I think they apply equally to issues of privacy…</span></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I'm not sure there is a generally recognized "right to be taxed" so equating policies related to taxation to policies related to privacy probably isn't the best base from which to build.</div><div><br></div><div>However, ignoring that, my impression of the points you posted was that they were making the observation that there is increasing difficulty in trying to force a global infrastructure square peg into the round hole of parochial nation-state regulatory regimes. I don't disagree since this has been pretty obvious since the collapse of the telecom settlements regime in the mid-90s. However, nation-states refuse to go away, thus I'm left with the question that I asked you previously: which government's regulations do you believe should apply?</div><div><br></div><div>An alternative could be evidenced by the fact that even without government intervention, Instagram lost 25% of its active user base as a result of their attempted change of their terms of service (<a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/rage_against_Dh05rPifiXBIJRE1rCOyML">http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/rage_against_Dh05rPifiXBIJRE1rCOyML</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>-drc</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>