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...rather nicely with the form and function of the Internet. I can, in essence, create my own sacred space. I have access to the precepts, texts, rituals and rules of a religion - for observance or investigation - without depending on an authority in a specific place to site, judge or restrict...
...difficult to regulate access to technology or its use. The nature of the Internet - borderless, fast, atomized, anonymous - works against the state's traditional grip on power. According to international press monitor Reporters Sans Frontieres, 20 governments now significantly restrict Internet access. But Web users can easily use "anonymizer" sites to circumvent the blockers and surf freely and in secret. "Our technology restricts the ability of governments to censor the Internet," says Stephen Hsu, founder and CEO of an anonymizer called SafeWeb, from where users can load a tool for blocking traces onto their browser windows before they begin surfing...
...that brings us to the second part of the solution. What should governments be doing? Some, most notably in the European Union, think they should pass laws restricting the use of personal data. Others, like the U.S., restrict the use of medical information but are pretty lax on almost everything else. Still others haven't addressed the issue. (And all are hampered by the fact that their citizens use websites outside their own country and beyond their own government's control...
...trillion health-care bill. The action is on two fronts. The FTC, for its part, is going after brand-name drug companies that seek to block cheaper, copycat generic drugs from the marketplace. At the same time, a bipartisan duo of congressional lawmakers is pushing legislation designed to restrict those anticompetitive tactics and speed up government approval of generic medicines...
...might restrict the President for a Day from issuing executive orders or declaring war or firing cabinet members, but why can't he greet the Girl Scouts, welcome foreign ambassadors, and give the odd speech - the kind of ceremonial things that mostly make up a President's day anyway? And like being an astronaut (remember, we've sent chimps and retired senators into space), there are no real requirements for the job. As far as I can tell, the constitution says nothing against renting out the Presidency for a premium rate...