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We already live in a world where the government controls what software can run, and have been for at least 20 years.


Yes, in authoritarian regimes. Which is something we need to resist in the free world.

Can you give an example of software (not data...) that is illegal to run in the US?


Tools for circumvention of copyright.

> (2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that—

> (A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;

> (B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or

> (C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person’s knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.


I think you can make a valid argument against me with this. DCMA is a hell of a law.

To my defense, I would argue that this speaks to production and sale of circumvention tools, and does not actually criminalize the execution of this code. But I weaken my original position about outlawing software. Thank you.




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