How Has Post-9/11 Legislation Affected You?

goldspider asks: "I hope this is received in the spirit it was intended in. In a recent Reuters article, the Internet as a whole has been referred to as 'collateral damage' of the U.S.-led War on Terrorism, because of the perceived loss in privacy and online rights as a result of post-9/11 legislation. I am curious to hear about some specific examples of how this legislation has personally or professionally affected the everyday lives of Slashdot readers."

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Too much 9/11

[Pollux]

I am curious to hear about some specific examples of how this legislation has personally or professionally affected the everyday lives of Slashdot readers."

I'm sorry, but we've done too much to "commemorate" September 11. What's done is done, and let the dead bury the dead. We should not brand Arabs as guilty and evil. Bush did a poor job handling 9/11. He has killed too many innocent lives in Afghanistan. Iraq should not be an American target. Why don't we just...

*** Knock *** Knock *** Knock ***

"Hello? Yes, how can I help you? Yes, I am loyal to my country. What? Hey! Where are you taking me?!?"

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How has it affected me? I'm worried about what I say in public; that's how it's affected me.

Eyeball to Eyeball with the Feds

[0x0d0a]

Now, which is more difficult to bare? The inconvenience of the search, or another 9/11 style attack?

Definitely the 9/11 style attack. I constantly live in fear that terrorists will smuggle a Boeing 757 (fully loaded with jet fuel) into the US from Canada in their car trunk. They'll then go to a public library, and after checking out books like "How to Blow Up Big Buildings with Commercial Airliners", they'll rent out a fleet of crop-sprayers over the Internet, using PGP. They'll tow the 757 to an airstrip using this fleet of crop-sprayers (conserving the 757's fuel for a really big explosion). They'll then suspiciously mill around the plane for a while in plain view of the neighbors with signs up saying "Die America" and "Kablooie Empire State Building". After a while, they'll take off and ram into the Empire State building.

Fortunately, the federal government has forseen this chain of events, and taken prompt action to stop the terrorists at any point.

(My apologies: I couldn't manage to somehow work in a number of federal stupidities like the uncomfortably KGB-like and extremely expensive Office of Homeland Security and the stupid regs that made an aircraft attendant make my father break the apparently deadly file off his nail clippers in his toiletries kit.)

It's affected me quite a bit, and I'm pissed.

[Wakko Warner]

I can no longer mail anthrax. This has effectively killed off one of my favorite pranks.

- A.P.