Senator Hollings and the SSSCA

An Anonymous Coward writes: "You probably suspected some sort of "follow the money" thing was behind Sen. Fritz Hollings' support of SSSCA, the draft bill that would make using 'any interactive digital device that does not include and utilize certified security technologies' illegal in the U.S. This proposed law could effectively outlaw Linux and most Open Source software, depending on how judges interpret it. A NewsForge story details where Sen. Hollings' money comes from. Guess what? His biggest contributors are entertainment industry companies, their lawyers, and their lobbyists. The story also says Hollings and his staff refused to comment on the bill, and staffers the reporter talked to refused to even give their names." Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of VA Linux.

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Interesting...

[Ryu2]

If you attempt to pronounce SSSCA, it sounds sort of like "sucker" -- I guess that's what the sponsors of the bill take us Americans for!

As William Wallace would say

[Ghoser777]

Sons of Technology, I am Steve Wozniak.

[Steve Wozniak is seven feet tall!]

Yes, I've heard. Kills men by the hundreds, and if he were here he'd consume the SSSCA with fireballs from his eyes and bolts of lightning from his arse.

I AM Steve Wozniak! And I see a whole army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny. You've come to fight as free men...and free men you are. What will you do without freedom? Will you fight?

[Fight? Against that? NO! We will run...and we will live.]

Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live...at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that...for one chance, JUST ONE CHANCE, TO COME BACK HERE AND TELL OUR ENEMIES THAT THEY MAY TAKE OUR LIVES...BUT THEY'LL NEVER TAKE OUR FREEDOM!!!

F-bacher