("No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.")
Not comedy. One reason for "quartering soldiers" was to obtain evidence and to intimidate within a private space. I've long held any form of broadly imposed in-privacy monitoring (including compulsory back door keys) is a 3rd Amendment violation, especially if the individual is practically paying for it.
Wikipedia and news articles should give you the details.
I'd say lack of access to law (as well as its unbearable complexity) is an issue of due process and the fundamental rule of law.
But you can't look to the Constitution to dictate everything - its drafters could not anticipate all future developments, and if the government is that citizen-hostile a piece of paper won't stop it. That which the Constitution does specify should be considered more as "behavioral tests", and currently the majority of our test report is failure.
The counter-point presumably being that law enforcement are not soldiers? Maybe the 3rd amendment has been interpreted as applicable to all government agents.
I remember the first time I visited Tokyo. The subway to Shinjuku station was packed. People seemed annoyed by my bags. We were really crammed in. Someone remarked to me that it was "rush hour" for people going home from their offices.
10pm on a weeknight is around when the post-drinking going home rush hour starts. The last and second to last trains are miserable experiences for me since they reek of alcohol and I'm terrified of someone projectile vomiting on me.
A guy I know from Tokyo witnessed just such an event. He was on a train so packed you couldn't move, and when one of the commuters started yakking on his neighbor neither of them could move, so the victim had to just sit there and take it.
Tenuously was yours (since the original internet (in the sense of a global network) was a connection of multiple networks and not all of them where in the US, far from it) it certainly isn't anymore.
The UK had JANET in the late-70's/early 80's other countries had similar, the US was important and influential but the internet would have existed anyway, the concept of connecting a bunch of disparate networks together to form a single internetwork is one of those things that would have happened anyway.
There are 5-6 times as many users outside the US as in the US, most of the equipment running it isn't even made in the US anymore.
So far the arguments I've seen on here have been "well we set it up so it's ours forever" which by that logic means we own all the telecoms systems in the world (we been the UK) as well as all the railways.... (which is absurd but then so is "it's ours" in relation to the internet).
That model doesn't work when we all share the same root name servers. I don't want a majority vote of a bunch of oppressive countries to be able to strip a website of its domain because it has an offensive joke on it.
The US have been good stewards so there has never been a reason to seriously contemplate moving en masse and without that critical mass you'd end up isolating your national network and having to bridge out anyway.
That said there is essentially zero technical reason why we couldn't just route (pun intended) straight around the US 'control' of the internet if we wanted so yeah it's a case of "we'll let you run it as long as you behave" rather than "you are the only ones who can".
US banks, through their American Bankers Association, already collectively own the Corporation for American Banking, which provides services to all banks. The average voter might have misgivings about collective ownership, but banks will hardly let it get in the way of their business.
I have Asperger's. Plus PTSD from various stuff that happened as a result of that.
So the idea of a safe place to share my strengths (and weaknesses) and try to find a job that doesn't stress me out was really exciteding. So I fired up Tor[2] and tried to register.
Then the confirmation email never name. I tried resending. Set a timer. Wait 15 minutes. Try not to perseverate.
I only have two emails - my main, plus a very old hotmail account which has now been morphed into an Outlook addy. Outlook has a pretty rich feature set, including aliases[1]. So I thought I'd try that.
"There's a temporary problem with the service. Please try again. If you continue to get this message, try again later".
I go through the process again on Outlook. Set a timer for 15 minutes. Try not to perseverate.
I guess I could use my personal email (my first name at my last name dot com), but frankly part of why I was excited about registering.
Maybe the issue is I did the initial account registration over Tor. Or maybe I'm just particuarly unlucky today.
All I know is my rational brain quietly whisper "Oh, just go back later, it's probably some server side bug", and my emotional brain yells back... other things.
I guess I could sign in with my Twitter, but if you'd been through what I've been through, you'd have trouble trusting people too. That's how I got into privacy and security work... feeling like I had a secret, and I needed to protect it.
I had cable internet very early in it's history, and I used to for things other than playing Half Life.
I did not end up going to Stanford, but I went to a decent state school and while I'm not rich, I'm certainly much better of than friends who had other majors.
("No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.")