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The CLOUD ACT is the bigger issue, imosad_smile
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You can pull data off foreign servers w/o a warrant in approved countries at all level of LE. 4th amendment will not apply to overseas data of US Citizens. I'm sure an agreement is done with UK and Canada will be next and some other European countries.

Trading privacy for security is the new norm. The sad thing is Silicon Valley Supports it's because they want their business to be easy.  

Silicon Valley ain't the rebels of Napster when I was a teen! Napster brought the fight and LE didn't bother to enforce people downloading MP3s. Record companies would sue at best early on ...but gave up.  

 

Point being with SESTA is that Pandora and Spotify equivalents could along until the hobby is like strip clubs. People need to stand up for the hobby like Marijuana  advocates did for decades. Who is going to start the advocacy groups and bank roll fighting for the hobby first? Can venture capital money be raised or will society push back cause it's toxic bro culture!?!?  The American public is going to have to fire back and demand reps and senators are pro hobby. Any hobby lobbyist groups out there?  

NRA is powerful in the face of mass shootings and kids be killed. Who is lobbying in the same manner for the hobby to say we still support hobbying in the face of bad actors?!?!?

But they're resistant at best. And not everyone can be "out of the closet " like me; a disproportionate number of clients are married, and can't risk it.  Thus, unfortunately, the burden of "normalization " falls on the providers.

NRA is not a good comparison, they defend the 2nd amendment, part of the constitution of the USA.  Many hobbyists aren't going to publicly defend an illegal activity.  Don't think the wives or SO's would like that at all.  

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