Re: Comcast throws down gauntlet to residential accounts

[Niels Elgaard Larsen <elgaard@xxxxxxx>]

Scott Bennett wrote:
>      On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:10:41 -0400 Ted Smith <teddks@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:

>> You're conveniently ignoring countries like Sweden, Iceland, Estonia,
>> where "socialist" Internet policies have resulted in some of the best
>> environments of digital freedom. In fact, your list appears only to
> 
>      Am I, indeed?  Let me see now...would that Sweden and Estonia happen
> to be the same Sweden and Estonia that are members of the European Union,
> that lovely organization issuing various directives requiring member states
> to institute legislation and regulation inimical to freedom on the Internet?

It is even worse than that. In Sweeden ISP's are forced to hand over a copy of every
single byte that crosses state borders to the state. The FRA law:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/FRA_law