Silicon Valley successfully painted the act as over-reaching and a threat to new technology and freedom of expression.
Jones show just how difficult it is for judges to adapt 18th-century concepts of personal freedom to technology that allows everybody to track everybody else just about all of the time.
The Memorandum of Understanding sets out clear, strategic priorities and encourages increased policy dialogue on areas of mutual interest between the two organisations, such as education, culture, science and technology, maritime policy and freedom of expression.
"What is happening in Egypt just goes to show the leverage that governments have over telecom providers, " said Cynthia Wong, the director of the Global Internet Freedom project at the Center of Democracy and Technology in Washington.
Restrictions upon the use of technology should receive strict legislative scrutiny because of its impact upon innovation and our personal freedom.
While it's our duty as parents to teach our kids responsibility with technology, how much can we interfere with their freedom of expression?
This is not just about freedom of speech, but the realities of technology.
Jonathan Rosen, author of "The Talmud and the Internet, " warns of the danger of becoming enslaved to technology on a holiday that, after all, celebrates freedom.
The farmers' system and philosophy, he insists, have condemned them to go forth and multiply, peopling the earth and expanding their domain to the detriment of hunter-gatherers, whose philosophy, based on respect for nature and for the equality and freedom of each individual, including children, was no match for the rapacity, technology and productivity of the newcomers.
What a loss to us all if the increased freedom technology provides simply lets more and more people decide to be like everyone else, if the content of choice becomes bland conformity.
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