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Misconceptions about the Internet
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Started conversation Sep 14, 2002
As more and more "average Joes" spend more and more time online, politicians and lawmakers will turn their ill-informed attentions to it even more. Eventually, ideas like charging a fee for every e-mail transmission (suggested in the US), making it illegal to play games online (a recent Greek law, still on the statute books at the time of writing, but in the process of being overturned) or inspecting all IP packets at a country's political borders (suggested in China) will seem like enlightened and informed legislative decisions compared to the laws written by a generation of judges whose knowledge of how computers work is based on having seen "Tron" twenty years ago. 
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