Comment Censorship? Yes. Illegal? Maybe (Score 1) 1046
I'll probably be modding down for this thought, but someone needs to ask...
I do not doubt at all that this is censorship by a company. The funny thing is that the U.S. constitution does not say that this is illegal. All that is illegal in this country is the government making a law that allows for censorship. Censorship happens all the times in the private sector. I can't talk about certain things that pertain to my job, when I was working for a public company I couldn't discuss knowledge that could affect the outcome of selling stock. How is this any different.
It is one company a company/trade group that is trying to protect some valuable information, why should this be illegal and have everyone get up in arms about it because it inconveniences your life becuase then you'd have to actually do the work to figure out this key instead and how to go about using it.
Just a thought, but as I said above it has always puzzled me why people scream censorship about this stuff.
I do not doubt at all that this is censorship by a company. The funny thing is that the U.S. constitution does not say that this is illegal. All that is illegal in this country is the government making a law that allows for censorship. Censorship happens all the times in the private sector. I can't talk about certain things that pertain to my job, when I was working for a public company I couldn't discuss knowledge that could affect the outcome of selling stock. How is this any different.
It is one company a company/trade group that is trying to protect some valuable information, why should this be illegal and have everyone get up in arms about it because it inconveniences your life becuase then you'd have to actually do the work to figure out this key instead and how to go about using it.
Just a thought, but as I said above it has always puzzled me why people scream censorship about this stuff.
