Massive Backlash Against Sweden's Internet Spying Bill
Found on Techdirt on Tuesday, 08 July 2008
Now that the bill has become law, it seems that the protests are only getting much, much louder, going beyond the initial group of bloggers complaining to the mainstream press, and including large companies like Google and Telia moving servers out of Sweden to protect their users.
Amazingly, the politicians who approved this bill are staying largely silent, despite the growing clamor about it.
While it's unclear what will happen here, this is just the latest in a long line of recent efforts to bring together people to call attention to questionable political moves that politicians in the past have been able to sneak through with little public scrutiny.
It's always been like that: politicians almost never take responsibility for what they've done. If they waste billions of cash, they just shrug and go "Oops". And even if one steps down, he gets a lot of money.