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Mostly a nonsense. Can old people who don't understand how the Internet works stop creating laws and rules that govern it?

My question sounds ageist, but we are dealing with people who can't even move a mouse, and then are apt to incriminate innocent people because terrorism.

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You seem to suggest such laws become reality because of ignorance. After having read the Snowden revelations, I find it impossible to think that.

This is 100% calculated and fully in line with what we have learned.

And it is yet another example of "let's make legal what we've been doing illegally for years/decades".

"people who don't understand how the Internet works stop creating laws and rules that govern it" might be true, but it has nothing to do with how old they are. I also firmly believe that these people do know how it works and simply want to control the population like they always have by using the internet as another tool.

I think it is another way for them to make money on the side. They get access to secrets and are directly responsible for companies to move forward. That way you can pay someone to block competition or get access to their trading secrets. Simply put, this law is enabling corruption on an unprecedented scale and privacy argument is just convenient to steer away conversation from what really it is about.

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