Holy shit. I'd leave the country and renounce citizenship over something like this.
Reading words? Looking at pictures? Watching a video? Felony jail time? Really?
This is policy that any sane person would resist.
Reading words? Looking at pictures? Watching a video? Felony jail time? Really?
This is policy that any sane person would resist.
Welcome to 15 years in jail.
Oh is that unreasonable? Thought crime 101.
The government barely cares about any kind of surveillance and there's no cultural trait to obsessively control everything. Chile also was the first country to sign a net neutrality law.
THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE HAS ASSESSED SAN JOSE AS BEING A HIGH-THREAT LOCATION FOR CRIME DIRECTED AT OR AFFECTING OFFICIAL U.S. GOVERNMENT INTERESTS.
Is it about downloading the wrong number? Or watching the video? If I downloaded, it doesn't mean I watched.
Above the generous threshold of about 128 bits, any given number is vanishingly unlikely to have been derived through any other process. If your 134-byte file turns out to be valid SVG for the Cartoon Network logo, then functionally speaking it is the Cartoon Network logo because it's incredibly unlikely you just pulled those particular 1072 bits out of your ass.
Similarly, if you are in possession of a 30-million digit binary number that happens to be valid h264 for an ISIS recruitment video, "oh what a stunning coincidence" isn't going to wash.
So "files are just binary numbers" doesn't get you anywhere, at all.
But the other way to look at is that it would be possible to have a set of data that is essentially illegal to use one function on and legal for another function to be used. Could someone unknowingly generate or acquire a set of data that is illegal to access and own? There has already been cases of terrorists hiding information within legal media.