US officials can seize your domain without a court order while in Iran or China, they would just block you! Remember the massive domain seizure that ended up being wrong?
Freedom? That's strictly up for debate!
I'm like 2 months late on my Internet bill (In before "just pay your bill" - hey man, it's the economy..) and they sent my account to a collections agency already. This company ACS Collections has called me 7 times this week, with two times in one day. I looked up my state law regarding the Fair Debt Collection Act and have discovered ACS is violating the terms of how many times they can communicate with me. I called yesterday to ACS Collections about their process of calling me every day, including twice in one day on two days, and the woman "Vanessa" said she was well within her rights!
All of this over $100!
I notified her that I'm filing a claim with my state official about the incident. The civil remedy is $1000 in personal damages, plus my court costs and attorney fees covered. I'll pay that $100 with my judgement and probably prepay about a year's worth of Internet service with this judgement. Thanks Comcast! If there was another viable alternative in my area, I would leave the service but I'm locked in as having Comcast as my Internet provider since my apartment has TV service supplied through them, even though I do not own nor watch a TV, so I got the Internet at a cheaper price.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce