The National Defense Authorization Act

the first step towards the revolution

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I would call it the nail in their coffin. The "real" first steps started long before we were even born, and have continued to this day. This is just the worst in a long line of bad ideas. If they had not gone through those with no real uprising from the people to be seen, aside from passive ones, they would never even have considered this one. If this were the first step, it would be the ONLY step, because without that barrier of desensitivity to "stupid pomegranate the government does", even the MENTION of this reaching congress would cause a massive riot the size of the entire country. I don't give a damn if the government spies on me, they can't do anything with 99.999999% of what I do to begin with, and they have no reason to single me out to begin with; I don't give a damn if they limit what I can do, because they can't enforce any of those limits on a grand scale, and the "pick randomly" method has never worked and they know it, they will only pick out the worst offenders and leave the rest alone. This is one of the first laws that concerns me; you can't ignore "threat of assassination by the government" as well as letters of complaint or C&D letters, you know. Basically, it's the first law where, if they somehow gained the capacity to enforce it, I would actually care about; for the rest, even if they could enforce them to the full extent they wouldn't bother me that much, because I don't really do anything overtly illegal anyway. Lucky me, 2D is 100% legal regardless of depiction, here! I mean, I guess getting C&D ISP notices for DLing anime would be annoying, but they aren't allowed to monitor HTTP transit data without probable cause, so torrents would just go by the wayside and DDLs would become the norm. As for this one, though...like I said, if they could enforce it, it would be horrible, on a completely different level from anything that has come before. Someone in the military can't just say "sorry" for killing you, and with this, they probably wouldn't even need to do so to begin with.