But back to the subject of governments. That new law is a good example of the fact that if you give a politician an inch, he'll take a mile. Governments are like that. It s just the nature of power. The worrisome thing is that if we don t watch out, the leverage that computers and the internet offer our governments might be enough to cost us our privacy and a good bit of the freedom we take so much for granted.
Same thing goes for the big corporations.
They also have a lot fewer statuatory limits on their actions. According to some people, privacy is a thing of the past. I hope not. The other cost of computers and this high falutin communications technology is more subtle. When you sit at a computer screen all day, somethin I have done a lot of in my little place in the woods, you get disconnected from the natural world.