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Geography, Laws, and the Internet
Sara Chan writes: "This week's edition of The Economist has the cover story and lead editorial devoted to how geography affects the Internet after all. The whole of China is basically firewalled. In France, Yahoo! is appealing the court ruling that banned its selling Nazi memorabilia. In Iran, ISPs are required to block immoral sites. Each country wants to impose its own laws on others, of course without reciprocation. The editorial concludes thus: "The likely outcome is that, like shipping and aviation, the Internet will be subject to a patchwork of overlapping regulations, with local laws that respect local sensibilities, supplemented by higher-level rules governing cross-border transactions and international standards." Not all new, but worth pondering."
Alpha Centauri: Alien Crossfire is a great thinking game. Would you like to have a game sometime? You should play as the Data Angel's. They are balanced in gameplay by NOT being able to make the Power social model choice. I'll play as the Free Drones. They are balanced by having increased production to compensate for their lack of knowledge or up-to-date military hardware.
As you'll probably be able to compromise quite a few of my bases intially I should start with 70% of the World base population.