What we have here again is the public being harmed (ripped off), at the behest of for-profit corporations. This law means that coffee shops, laundromats, and other businesses can't offer free wireless. Not to mention airports or municipalities. So everyone, the entire public, is denied a benefit because of media companies that would rather screw potential (and current) customers than create products to sell. And don't buy into this offensive claim that it's about "terrorism."
Are people just getting more spineless all the time?
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