Is the Government Scaring Web Businesses Out of the US? 271
suraj.sun sends this quote from an article at Techdirt:
"The federal government has been paying lip service to the idea that it wants to encourage new businesses and startups in the U.S. And this is truly important to the economy, as studies have shown that almost all of the net job growth in this country is coming from internet startups. ... With the JotForm situation unfolding, where the U.S. government shut down an entire website with no notice or explanation, people are beginning to recognize that the U.S is not safe for internet startups. Lots of folks have been passing around [a] rather reasonable list of activities for U.S.-based websites."
Re:Really? (Score:5, Funny)
Is slashdot scaring away developers with more political submissions? Remember when there used to be a Developer section instead of all this political BS?
Are you trying to make a point? Do you not remember that Slashdot has always had technology related political articles going way back? Do you remember when Slashdot had all those articles in the 90s about the Microsoft trials about their monopoly?
Can you explain to me why we're posting with rhetorical questions?
Is this some sort of method of attracting attention?
I don't know. Awe shit! Did I just blow the rhetorical question there here?
Re:Really? (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know. Awe shit! Did I just blow the rhetorical question there here?
That's "aww, shit" -- unless, of course, you just looked into the toilet and are indeed in awe of what you beheld there.
Re:Data - the new "cocaine"? (Score:5, Funny)
At this rate data, information and knowledge will be the new thing to smuggle.
Who would have thought Johnny Mnemonic would have been so prophetic?! [youtube.com]