The government tells us that we can't expect privacy on the internet because they have the 'right' to snoop on us. Despite the 4th Amendment to the Constitutiuon. This sort of hubris has a chilling effect on people using the internet. A week or so ago, we hear that Edward Snowden's 'private' email provider Lavabit has shut down, and its founder, Ladar Levison is being threatened by the government for destroying data on his servers to keep it private. Today, another casualty, Groklaw, run by Pamela Jones who tells us that she cannot continue her site under conditions of no privacy. Both of these web authors have been on the internet for a decade, and are flushing their hard work down the toilet because the government makes it impossible to continue.

Here's a link to Jones's Groklaw announcing the shutdown:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?s...30818120421175

This is a disturbing trend if it is a trend. It may be the beginning of a new dark age. Privacy, like air, is a necessity for life. It looks like the thugs running the US Government are going to learn that the hard way. How many more sources of enlightenment are going to shut down before the government backs off? Or will it take a whole millennium like it did for the Catholic Church in Europe after the fall of Rome?


Hatha