I'll provide the URL to the act so people can read it before they comment: http://www.stoppoliceware.org/cbdtpa_bill_text.php >>> "Fred Baker" <fred@cisco.com> 08/19/02 11:49AM >>> At 10:48 AM 8/19/2002 -0400, Brian Bisaillon wrote: >Legislations such as the "Consumer Broadband and Digital Television >Promotion Act" are deliberate attempts by the U.S. government to impose >patterns or systems that limit one's mind (one's ability to learn about >and use information). This is clearly a limit on one's freedom and it's >morally wrong. So then commercial advertising is wrong as well? It surely has the same end in mind.