Re: Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11, 000 a day (in Australia)

[Gregory Hicks <ghicks () hicks-net net>]

> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:59:09 -0700
> Subject: Re: [funsec] Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11, 000 a day 
(in  Australia)
> From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>
> To: Gregory Hicks <ghicks () hicks-net net>
> Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
>
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> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Gregory Hicks <ghicks () hicks-net net>
> wrote:
>
> > "Perfect Law" is what it is.  Ordinary folk can violate it without
> > knowing they have broken the law.  TWGs can come and get you at
> > their leisure - because you have broken the law.
>
> "Prefect law"?
>
> Did you make that up?

Nope!  I remember reading it somewhere.  You don't think I'd make 
something like that up, do you?

Found it in the Risks Digest, Vol 25, Issue 48...  Quoting:

The Perfect Law: Re: Dangerous Precedence Set
<Martin Ward <martin () gkc org uk>>
Tue, 9 Dec 2008 11:34:02 +0000

(Re: Federal Criminal Charges for Violation of Commercial Online ToS?)

> From the government's point of view, the "Perfect Law" is one which
everyone has broken. With this law, anyone the government does not like
(for whatever reason) can be arrested and imprisoned.

> From the citizen's point of view, such a law means the end of the rule
of law.  You are now living in a tyranny: any criticism of the
government could land you in jail with no recourse.

"But," you protest, "I haven't violated the Terms of Service of any web
site!"  What about that government-run web site which just about
everyone in the country is required to sign up for. On page 16 of the
voluminous Terms of Service is a poorly-worded note to the effect that
anyone who criticises any action of the government is in violation of
the Terms of Service of this web site.

martin () gkc org uk http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/

End quoting...

The article train was discussing the mother that portrayed herself as a
teenage boy and used that to "bully" the girl.  The girl committed
suicide.  They took the mother to court in Los Angeles because that is
where the company's servers are located.  (The mother did not follow
the TOS for the website in that she 'lied' about her age, gender, et
al...)

Regards,
Gregory Hicks

> - - ferg
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> -- 
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
>  fergdawgster(at)gmail.com
>  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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