You need libertarians. Probably closet libertarians, but libertarians.
While we wait, I know I can encrypt and rehost data in -- various -- juristictions faster than a government worker can persuade another government worker to pull my encrypted data, so I feel very safe up here in the cloud. This will be a service if it isn't already. This is not really a problem. But we do need more libertarians.
Last summer we reviewed using Yahoo's small business product to host our site, and handle our email, but their TOS had the same boilerplate in it. It required that anything we had on their system -- files, website, emails was available for them to resell or republish as their own content. Obvious non-starter, and our complaint about the issue was ignored so we didn't use the service.
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You need libertarians. Probably closet libertarians, but libertarians. While we wait, I know I can encrypt and rehost data in -- various -- juristictions faster than a government worker can persuade another government worker to pull my encrypted data, so I feel very safe up here in the cloud. This will be a service if it isn't already. This is not really a problem. But we do need more libertarians.
Last summer we reviewed using Yahoo's small business product to host our site, and handle our email, but their TOS had the same boilerplate in it. It required that anything we had on their system -- files, website, emails was available for them to resell or republish as their own content. Obvious non-starter, and our complaint about the issue was ignored so we didn't use the service.