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Re:The 2nd Amendment should protect the Internet, not your AK47 by jwb119 on Friday December 21, 2012 @12:39PM (#4953625)
This argument would make a lot more sense in terms of the First Amendment.

Conflating it with a media topic du jour (gun control) just weakens the argument, for me at least.

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Re:The 2nd Amendment should protect the Internet, not your AK47 by rdl on Friday December 21, 2012 @12:45PM (#4953657)
There is a long history of cryptography-as-munition (ITAR, Wassenaar, etc.), and during the crypto wars of the 1990s, a second amendment defense was something people discussed many times.
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