[free-sklyarov] Congress says: Keep Dmitry in jail! Washington loves DMCA...

[Ethan Straffin]

>    Coble's counterpart in the Senate, California Democrat Dianne
>    Feinstein, feels the same way.
>
>    "We need to protect copyrights and this law was designed to do that,"
>    said Howard Gantman, a spokesman for Feinstein, who chairs the Senate
>    Judiciary subcommittee on technology. "She's not looking to change
>    it."

This woman is a menace to society.  Yahoo! Internet Life once called her
one of the five least net-friendly members of Congress, and wrote,
"Feinstein arguably has done more than any other senator to censor and
regulate the Net. She repeatedly has attempted to ban bomb-making
information, even though courts have ruled it's legal to publish it. She
tried to make it a crime to discuss marijuana growing online -- or to link
to drug related Web sites. And she has suggested banning encryption
software that federal law enforcement officials can't monitor. It's not
that anyone is for bomb-making or drug links, but that Feinstein's
ham-fisted approach would be overly far-reaching."

I know I shouldn't be surprised at the Feinstein juggernaut's continued
success in a state in which the prison guards' union is the single most
powerful lobby, but come *on*.  There have to be enough techies,
libertarians, true liberals, and true conservatives out there to recognize
that DiFi is an authoritarian corporate stooge and all-around enemy of at
least half the Bill of Rights.  But we keep letting her roll right on over
us -- and it's entirely possible that she'll be President some day.

Di Fi Watch: http://www.zpub.com/un/un-df.html

Ethan
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