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Re:White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal” by sneak on Monday March 04, 2013 @03:46PM (#5320796)
I direct your attention to the "industrial" part of the "military-industrial complex" statement. Giant telecoms and media companies, protecting their aging and anticompetitive business models, paid large sums of money to the legislature to get laws passed to make it a criminal offense to circumvent their dying business models and to protect their entrenched positions.

So, yes, the reason that we have the DMCA is because of big content and big telecoms - a large part of the "industrial" arm of the "military-industrial complex".

Thank you, drive through.

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Re:White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal” by techpeace on Monday March 04, 2013 @03:59PM (#5320882)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-industrial_complex

The phrase does not apply to any industry, it refers specifically to the defense industry, of which telecoms are not a part. Otherwise, we could plausibly say that any sufficiently large business in the US is part of the "military-industrial complex," which is not the case.

So it has little, if anything, to do with the military-industrial complex.

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Re:White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal” by sneak on Monday March 04, 2013 @04:14PM (#5321018)
Uhh, okay.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

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Re:White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal” by dyno12345 on Monday March 04, 2013 @05:48PM (#5321565)
That also has nothing to do with the "military-industrial complex"

In order for that to fit the analogy, AT&T would have to have lobbied the government to create that so it could profit from it.

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Re:White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal” by techpeace on Monday March 04, 2013 @06:02PM (#5321626)
The entire reason this was controversial was specifically because we consider telecommunications working hand-in-hand with intelligence agencies to be a violation of our basic freedoms. Had this been set up in a foreign country by KBR, it would fit within the concept of the "military industrial complex."
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