re Good Read FBI avoids warrant by having TSA search computer at airport

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com>
> Date: April 21, 2010 3:32:57 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Cc: Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>, ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] ] re Good Read FBI avoids warrant by having TSA  
> search computer at airport

> I am starting to think that the right phrase these days is "Expect  
> Civil Liberties? Get over it!"
>
> The reason is this: the Internet has eliminated borders and  
> boundaries. Our US policy has always assumed that outside the US  
> border, our civil liberties disappear.
>
> Rather than extend the span of civil liberties to cyberspace, our  
> society and our government has decided that it is far more  
> convenient to extend the span of the civil liberty-free zone to all  
> of cyberspace, all information, and all communication.
>
> We are left with the new conservative ideal: the "market" will  
> produce whatever is really of "value". Thus the idea that civil  
> liberties will arise if the "market" wills it so, from market  
> principles.  If Civil Liberties are so valuable, why won't anyone  
> pay for it?  Since they don't pay for it, they don't get it.
>
> QED.  Read books like Freakonomics, and see more examples of how  
> economic analysis can demonstrate the (lack of) value of anything  
> that we wish to devalue...



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