Two laws that stifle the growth of technology in the US

These are the two worst laws for a gardener of silicon rust:

the DMCA ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA )

and

the Patriot Act ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act )

These laws do not encourage the things that brought the great innovations that the US is famous for like the Internet, Unix, ethernet, etc. They would inhibit a Bell Labs or a Xerox PARC or even the children of products from Xerox Parc (like Apple and 3Com and the like).


If you are a citizen and want to see the U.S. keep up with the world in technology, write you congress person and contribute to the EFF ( http://www.eff.org/ ). If you can, do more. If you can't anything will help.