From: David Lubkin (lubkin@unreasonable.com)
Date: Mon Oct 18 1999 - 18:55:13 MDT
>It is going to be very interesting to see if governments get to
>the point of trying to regulate the actions of their citizens
>in other countries!?! I.e. A German citizen who wants to manage
>a N site located in the U.S. or a U.S. citizen who wants to
>sell guns on a site in Cuba, etc.
Governments have been in the business of regulating their citizens'
non-domestic activities for years now. They do not work hard at
enforcement, though.
>If I ship my gun to a friend in Cuba, he takes 10% and then
>ships the gun to some teenager in the U.S., have I violated
>a law? [Perhaps a "conspiracy" to violate a law?]
Since a farmer feeding his hogs has been deemed interstate commerce,
I'm sure that you would have committed several felonies.
>Governments may have some hope of regulating the sale of guns or
>drugs, but "data" seems pretty impossible to regulate.
It's very easy to *regulate*; it's just hard to enforce.
-- David Lubkin.
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