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["Trevor Peck" <trevor AT ISBNread.com>]

> >  My plan is to get debt-free, live a long way from any sizeable city, and
> >be as close to self-sufficient as possible, thus lessening the effects of
> >the tyranny to me and to my family.
> 
> Many or most of us here embrace the first three of the four. But how does
> living in the boonies lessen the effect of censorship of material on the
> Internet? Censorship laws would reach into every computer, whether in a big
> city or on an uncharted island, no?

 Good question. I forget (often) that I'm expecting a future much 
different than most people are. :-)

 Censorship will of course affect everyone, but I'm not terribly worried 
about the direct effects of censorship, especially on me, as I'm not big 
on publishing my views anyway. Not sure why I'm doing it now, to tell the 
truth. :-)

 I am worried about the other effects - the legislation that will get 
passed without us even being aware of it, the society that will arise from 
people living under such rules. 

 This is already happening with the 60 day rule (speech by groups is 
already severely restricted within sixty days of an election, and this has 
been in effect for quite a while).

 I'm expecting life, and living standards to get much worse as government 
takes more and more power.

 Living standards could drop a lot. Governments already cause extreme 
poverty in many places around the world, and I expect it to happen here 
(although I'm hoping it's a long way off). Living away from a city makes 
my property (not just land) much less desirable to thugs.

 Living well in the face of extreme property can make one very unpopular, 
but living well where no one even knows you exist doesn't make any 
enemies.
 
 I rely on the Internet, and the labor of other people (money can only buy 
what someone has makes), for my living now, but I hope that before too 
many more of these laws are passed I won't. So "Great Depression II" 
shouldn't affect me much. I hope.

 - Trevor.

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