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Conservatives don't get it that advancements in technology have the tendency to make censorship laws impracticable.

In this particular case, you friends can always order e-books, and in case your credit-card transactions are tracked, you can always find pirated versions and download them through an encrypted connection.

And what's ironic is that the censorship of a book makes it a lot more popular that it would've been otherwise.

What next? Plant a chip in every human being that triggers on certain patterns of the brain's electrical impulses? I'm pretty sure there's going to be a crack for that.




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