A US law would affect only US providers; however the National Security Agency is already authorized to monitor all other internet traffic, and other communications traffic, in the world. They have complex search algorithms that single out individual messages based on their security priorities.

Fred

Correct if I'm wrong (And i'm probably wrong) but that would work for

every

single site if approved, so why strike only Wikipedia? I would stop use

internet altogether. :P

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On 4 February 2012 13:46, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:

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Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

See http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10448060-38.html

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