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Article: Legislating Cyberlaws Often Just a Hypothetical Exercise.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- May 7, 2001
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THE trouble with being a cyber-libertarian is that you spend most of your time slaying hypothetical dragons.
Oddly enough, that task is more difficult than taking on the real thing.
Whenever someone introduces a new technology or proposes new regulations, the digital watchdogs squint into the future and imagine how these developments might possibly be used to harm Internet users. If they turn up anything troublesome, they start spreading the word and taking steps to intervene.
But they're faced with a daunting challenge: The problems they're worried about don't exist yet. So unless politicians or judges are willing to share in their ominous ...