Serious threat to the web in Italy

Re:Serious threat to the web in Italy by derwiki on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @11:07AM (#1148253)

I saw a really good TED talk where the speaker argued that we have far too many laws right now: http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_howard.html

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Re:Serious threat to the web in Italy by Groxx on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @12:11PM (#1148446)

One of the few useful ideas I read in Utopia stated that (paraphrased) it's nuts to be bound by laws you cannot possibly comprehend within a year.

Makes a lot of sense to me, personally. Though I'll grant that won't happen, it's an ideal to shoot for, instead of endlessly patching problems with laws that noone can possibly comprehend the ramifications of due to the system's complexity.

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Re:Serious threat to the web in Italy by dnsworks on Thursday February 25, 2010 @05:18AM (#1150387)

A year is a long time. If it took a year to comprehend all the laws that you might be breaking, you're guaranteed to at least break some of them.

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Re:Serious threat to the web in Italy by Groxx on Monday March 01, 2010 @02:55AM (#1158299)

This is as opposed to the lifetime+ of our current set of laws? I'm not saying a year is a good number, just that it's a better goal to shoot for than we currently have (more laws apparently == better).

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