From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060804-7421.html

Basically if you break a country's internet laws (even if they are not laws
in your country) then they can ask your gov to........

"According to the EFF, "The treaty requires that the U.S.
government help enforce other countries' 'cybercrime' laws—even if the act
being prosecuted is not illegal in the United States. That means that
countries that have laws limiting free speech on the Net could oblige the
F.B.I. to uncover the identities of anonymous U.S. critics, or monitor
their communications on behalf of foreign governments. American ISPs would
be obliged to obey other jurisdictions' requests to log their users'
behavior without due process, or compensation."

Those are legitimate issues to worry about, but among conservative
commentators, the fear goes far beyond thorny questions of international
relations. Distrust of "leftists," "internationalists,"
and "Eurocrats" is palpable. "Even worse, the Cybercrime
Treaty is open to all nations to ratify," writes one commentator.
"That means a future leftist President could even allow Communist
China to sign on to the treaty and direct U.S. law enforcement to
investigate Chinese dissidents, even Americans, based in the United
States."

Sure, because the left hates human rights and privacy, and it wants nothing
more than to spy on ordinary Americans who haven't committed a crime. Oh,
wait.

Or again, "the treaty could allow European or even Chinese Communist
agents to electronically spy on innocent Americans." The Europeans, as
the Convention's drafters, come in for special flogging—"greater
control over what we do on the Internet is the goal of the Eurocrats so
enamored with global government.""


Good or bad ...it will happen. Economic leads the way for law and economics
has been globalizing for a while next.

Adam

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