On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 21:57 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 21:26 -0700, Lisa Kachold wrote:
> > But the big issue for PLUG members, in FISA (and legislation of it's
> > type) is the new overly expensive required fiscal reporting for EBay
> > and others for "economic reasons"?
> >
> > Co-located Ecommerce will simply be moved out of country in the world
> > economy of the internet?
> >
> > This has the potential to impact our careers in a very big way, does
> > it not?
> >
> > Unless you want to move to a cheaper, less ethically warlike, foreign
> > country to work?
> >
> > Will we all be communicating (via webcam/email) from Canada, Italy,
> > Spain, India or Indonesia in 3 years?
> ----
> perhaps a sleeper issue that escaped me.
>
> FISA itself is purported to be a timely and technological update of the
> original 1978 FISA legislation that was driven by the excesses of the
> Nixon administration and predecessors including the absurd things done
> by the CIA and the FBI preceding the legislation.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FISA_Amendments_Act_of_2008
>
> The government has already provided economic incentives for corporations
> to move off-shore which many have done but I think you're sort of
> getting off-track of the FISA legislation itself.
----
I should have included this link because this completely summarizes the
problems with telecom immunity...
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Senator_Dodd_Speaks_in_Opposition_to_FISA_Bill_on_Floor_of_U.S._Senate
Craig
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