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nitrogen on Jan 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: US customs blocking DVDs that depict "insurrection...

The good news is that this only affects physical media. Posting a video on YouTube has the same effect as shipping DVDs across the border, but is out of Customs' reach.

For now, sort of. After all, it's ICE that is seizing domain names. How long before any time your traffic crosses a border, a customs notice is displayed enumerating all the freedoms you are being denied?

rbanffy on Jan 23, 2012 [–]

> a customs notice is displayed enumerating all the freedoms you are being denied?

That will never happen. It's more likely there will be a list of how you are being protected from the bogeyman du jour.

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