New Law Passed In Oklahoma Written By Microsoft

[adidas_os]

Microsoft writes a law for Oklahoma giving it the right to inspect your hard drive, delete your files and applications, and call the police if it finds anything “illegal”… is your state next?

Read the full article here:

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=4963

To me, this is terrible news. Notice how they sell this as being something good, protecting you from something bad, till you read between the lines. It seems to me that that's how every law that takes more and more away from the rights and privacy of us, the average Joe, is designed. I feel we as Americans need to stand up for ourselves. We are letting the government & Microsoft become far too powerful. Was not the government originally created to be a system of checks and balances. To keep any one person (George W for example) or group of people (his administration, or Microsoft, for example) from having too much unjust power? Isn't that why they made the monopoly law? But look at us, we have given up far too much already. Allowing our government to spy on our internet activities:

EFF: AT&T forwards all Internet traffic into NSA

http://www.spamdailynews.com/publish...A_says_EFF.asp
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70621-0.html

Take away our civil liberties with the patriot act,

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washing...t_x.htm?csp=15

the VOIP thing,

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...012701086.html

etc... And now this. It seems to me giving the government too much power is a very bad thing. Now are we going to stand idly by while Microsoft is given too much power as well? What's your opinion on all of this? Can anything be done? What should/can we do to correct this is if you, like me, think it's not a good thing? Let me know in this thread!

[lifehacker]

Im lucky that I dont live in Oklahoma, although I still think if you stay away from things like Kazaa and know how to download pretty safely your hardrive isint likely to get checked.

[mcovey]

yeah good thing its in oklahoma

this sort of thing could never happen in NH, the people have almost complete control of our legislature, and we get multiple libertarians testifying for almost every important bill.

[shawners]

There already laws like this in place. Microsoft as well as others can go in and check business to make sure their operating systems is legal and licensed to them. Make sure its on so many pc's and such. Oklahoma is just so known for piracy. I can see how this happend! =)

[Psilaxs]

Well, if Oklahoma did not have ties to Hong Kong Piracy Cartels (HKPC) this never would have happened, it is well known the previous state legislature was uncovered to be receiving kickbacks from HKPC and Burt Carlton who was the majority leader at the time was the one responsible for that. After he was censured and impeached on the ground of unethical behavior this bill was passed. This may have far reaching effects in surrounding states, as well as others. Lord only knows how deep this goes.

[Unsueable Davey Brown]

I get where you're coming from Adidas, and I'm with you on the outrage, but to be totally honest I'm just another one of the sheep following along on the way to the coporation police state slaughterhouse. I may be trailing the herd a little, bitching and moaning, slipping the odd cracked Word disk to the sheep next to me, but I've given in to the inevitability of it all. It's just too big, and I don't see any way to stop it.

So now I just follow along and wonder what it's going to be like when the totality of the CPS finally arrives, and we're all lined up neatly in our kiosks, under total control of the corporation world order, with family members turning us in for infractions of corporation law, and such. I have a kind of curiosity about it.

[mcovey]

I get where you're coming from Adidas, and I'm with you on the outrage, but to be totally honest I'm just another one of the sheep following along on the way to the coporation police state slaughterhouse. I may be trailing the herd a little, bitching and moaning, slipping the odd cracked Word disk to the sheep next to me, but I've given in to the inevitability of it all. It's just too big, and I don't see any way to stop it.

So now I just follow along and wonder what it's going to be like when the totality of the CPS finally arrives, and we're all lined up neatly in our kiosks, under total control of the corporation world order, with family members turning us in for infractions of corporation law, and such. I have a kind of curiosity about it.

A wise man once said that tyranny is the perfect harmony of corporation and state.
Your thinking seems on the right track, I have some links you might find interesting -

http://www.freestateproject.org/

http://www.theihs.org/category.php/142.html