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                              Oh no! Not Sweden …
                                        
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* Sweden approves wiretapping law (The Beeb) [1]
* Wiretapping Bill Passes Swedish Parliament, 143 to 138 (/.) [2]
* Internet Wall of China,… around Sweden! (Reddit) [3]


It was rather disturbing to read that Sweden passed an extensive wiretapping
law (Mayday Mayday! Internet Wall of China—around Sweden!) [4] the other day.
And here I thought only totalitarian [5] regimes [6] and stupid knee-jerk
reactionary Americans [7] did that sort of thing.

Guess stupidity knows no bounds.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7463333.stm
[2] http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/06/18/2044243.shtml?tid=158
[3] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/info/6o17a/comments/
[4] http://swartz.typepad.com/texplorer/2008/06/mayday-mayday-internet-wall-of-china---around-sweden.html
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Republic_of_China
[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act

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