Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!emory!gatech!euler.eedsp.gatech.edu!bill From: bill@eedsp.gatech.edu ( ) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Amendments Message-ID: <1991Apr14.200050.17280@eedsp.gatech.edu> Date: 14 Apr 91 20:00:50 GMT References: Organization: Home for Homeless Homing Pigeons Lines: 18 In article brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: >With talk of amendments to protect privacy in the computer age, let me >pose the opposite question. What do people feel would be the consequences >of: > >Congress shall make no law abriding the right of the people to use any >tool of computation or communication. It would likely follow the same path as the Second Amendment to our U.S. Constitution. Computers (not people) would be deemed an unacceptable danger to society and we would be hobbled with all sorts of laws, which although doubtlessly passed with the best intentions, would only serve to inhibit and restrict otherwise law-abiding Americans. -- Bill Berbenich School of EE DSP Lab Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!eedsp!bill Internet: bill@eedsp.gatech.edu