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They can make drugs illegal too. Hope they don't do that. You know what the penalties were for participating in the black markets in USSR were? Yet people did.
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Drugs are a nuisance. True free speech/money something else entirely. But even more important: It is generally far easier to track packets electronically than to track physical stuff.
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They'll definitely try. I'm hoping it will be too late by then.
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Small potatoes stuff like memo now? Who cares. But "main stream" social platform? Then Joe Sixpack has to be able harden his home computer setup (weak endpoint) to resist NSA
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Not to mention willing to endure the hazzle it means, instead of just using FB for his cat movies. Also, it is not enough that NSA cannot break into his rig, they must not know there
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is something hidden there. Cause if they do, they can come to his house and take him down. If it is seriously illegal, that would mean prison for poor mr Sixpack.