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Story: ISP: Wi-Fi test shows flaw in file-sharing crackdown

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Re: Flawed Analogy

I think you got it wrong. The Internet is not removed - only the right to use it, the same as the loss of driving licence leads the loss of the ability to drive on the roads.

Nevertheless, there is a moral issue here, and in many aspects of today's society. Namely that the wrong doing minority are setting the agenda for all of us; i.e. a state controlled, heavily regulated and totally invasive Orwellian society. So we all suffer a loss of freedom, a loss of freedom of choice and a loss of privacy. Not good.

All this because people are loosing their moral compass, honesty, integrity and consideration for others. Worst case scenario - a broken society.

Ironically, It is the same advances in Technology which facilitate much of the wrong doing that will also be used to control us all; and we all know what control freaks this government are already. As a final point, this all changes the balance between presumed innocence and assumed guilt.

However, in the specific case of improper file sharing, the subject of this thread, we must be assured that it is dealt with on a correct legal basis and not on a vigilante basis. Actually, that applies elsewhere too.

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