Comments on: Government spying self-defense site http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18681 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:23:46 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Shayam http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18681/comment-page-1#comment-969093 Shayam Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:09:41 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18681#comment-969093 The role of a State is to preserve the person and property of its citizens from illegal and unauthorised intrusions. In the modern technological era this role has considerably changed. The State instead of protecting its citizens is trying to regulate their online conduct through e-surveillance. An important question that arises in this situation is whether the citizens can exercise right to self-defense against illegal eavesdropping and e-surveillance? See http://perry4lawgroups.blogspot.com/2009/03/private-defense-in-cyberspace-against.html for more. The role of a State is to preserve the person and property of its citizens from illegal and unauthorised intrusions. In the modern technological era this role has considerably changed. The State instead of protecting its citizens is trying to regulate their online conduct through e-surveillance. An important question that arises in this situation is whether the citizens can exercise right to self-defense against illegal eavesdropping and e-surveillance? See http://perry4lawgroups.blogspot.com/2009/03/private-defense-in-cyberspace-against.html for more.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18681/comment-page-1#comment-968838 Reader's Write Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:11:14 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18681#comment-968838 And what about the corresponding laws in Canada? I think that this project should be a wiki, with editorial oversight and experts. And what about the corresponding laws in Canada?

I think that this project should be a wiki, with editorial oversight and experts.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18681/comment-page-1#comment-968829 Reader's Write Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:52:18 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18681#comment-968829 It is not only a US problem, the problem is with all governments of the world. Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely Meaning Literal meaning. Origin This arose as a quotation by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902). The historian and moralist, who was otherwise known simply as Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." Another English politician with no shortage of names - William Pitt, the Elder, The Earl of Chatham and British Prime Minister from 1766 to 1778, is sometimes wrongly attributed as the source. He did say something similar, in a speech to the UK House of Lords in 1770: "Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it" copypasta from http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/288200.html It is not only a US problem, the problem is with all governments of the world.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely

Meaning

Literal meaning.

Origin

This arose as a quotation by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902). The historian and moralist, who was otherwise known simply as Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887:

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”

Another English politician with no shortage of names – William Pitt, the Elder, The Earl of Chatham and British Prime Minister from 1766 to 1778, is sometimes wrongly attributed as the source. He did say something similar, in a speech to the UK House of Lords in 1770:

“Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it”

copypasta from http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/288200.html

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