A tech mandate requiring backdoors in the Internet endangers the privacy of innocent people, stifles innovation, and risks the Internet as a forum for free and open expression,
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What you want to do is to teach students to use liberty responsibly, not take it away because you don't trust what they'll do with it. One thing you can do to guarantee that everyone in the school will want to see a site is to suspend someone over it.
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While they're willing to seek subpoenas for people without associations with Apple, they failed to review laptops or e-mails.
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Creativity and innovation will end up moving offshore where programmers outside the U.S. can develop technologies that are not required to address the onerous CALEA requirements. The U.S. companies will face competition from foreign providers who will enjoy an advantage.
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There's something disturbing about the notion that when you search for something the government is going to be looking over your shoulder.
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Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act of 1996 made clear that interactive computer services could not be held liable as publishers or speakers of content posted by third parties. It also provides that no cause of action may be brought, and no liability may be imposed under any state or local law that is inconsistent with the section. And what he proposes is a state law that is inconsistent with that section.
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