[governance] [] US, UK and Canada refuse to sign UN's internet treaty

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

The problem of course is that a lot of the lock picking tools in the online world tend to be open source, and regulating the sale of lots of these is a non starter when it comes to the sheer burden of compliance

--srs (htc one x)


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From: "Roland Perry" <roland at internetpolicyagency.com>
To: <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
Subject: [governance] [] US, UK and Canada refuse to sign UN's internet treaty
Date: Sat, Dec 15, 2012 8:57 PM


In message <E1TjtQ7-000544-02 at frodo.hserus.net>, at 20:42:54 on Sat, 15 
Dec 2012, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> writes
>Facts of life.. Substitute locksmiths and lock picking tools if you
>want a less loaded analogy

I don't have a problem with locksmiths, but shouldn't we be restricting 
the sale of lock-picking-tools to the general public?

>----- Reply message -----
>From: "Roland Perry" <roland at internetpolicyagency.com>
>To: <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
>Subject: [governance] [] US, UK and Canada refuse to sign UN's internet
>treaty
>Date: Sat, Dec 15, 2012 8:28 PM
>
>
>In message <04A0107A-8321-4A36-863B-79CD87662186 at istaff.org>, at
>08:51:35 on Sat, 15 Dec 2012, John Curran <jcurran at istaff.org> writes
>
>>If we need controls, then we need them   on actual acts of harm, not
>>the tools or their use.
>
>"Guns don't kill people, people do", a very topical observation.
>
>Eventually, maybe, someone will call "time" on that theory.
>--
>Roland Perry
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