Comments on: Photo ID in Italy’s Net cafes http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6496 p2pnet.net - reader powered Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:32:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6496/comment-page-1#comment-21621 Reader's Write Thu, 06 Oct 2005 07:53:34 +0000 #comment-21621 If I am not doing anything wrong, fundamentally nothing is going to happen to me," says Mauro Pallotta, a young artist, after checking his e-mail at Savoni's cafe.” What's his email? I'll send him some spam about bomb-making, and we'll see how long it takes him to wind up in a prison, without being charged and with no prospect of a trial, merely on suspicion of being a terrorist. That he didn't ask for the material would probably be irrelevant, he'd be in possession of it and that's all that would matter. Even deleting the email as soon as he got it might not help, if it's still sitting on the isp's email server with him listed as the recipient. Not to mention the fact that just because nothing you're doing today is illegal, doesn't mean the govt can't make it illegal tomorrow and backdate it to yesterday. If I am not doing anything wrong, fundamentally nothing is going to happen to me,” says Mauro Pallotta, a young artist, after checking his e-mail at Savoni’s cafe.”

What’s his email? I’ll send him some spam about bomb-making, and we’ll see how long it takes him to wind up in a prison, without being charged and with no prospect of a trial, merely on suspicion of being a terrorist. That he didn’t ask for the material would probably be irrelevant, he’d be in possession of it and that’s all that would matter. Even deleting the email as soon as he got it might not help, if it’s still sitting on the isp’s email server with him listed as the recipient.

Not to mention the fact that just because nothing you’re doing today is illegal, doesn’t mean the govt can’t make it illegal tomorrow and backdate it to yesterday.

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