We can see that the US government is more interested in surveillance and propaganda on the internet than anything else.
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019, 6:30 AM Roberto C. Sánchez <robe...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 11:04:57AM +0000, Long Wind wrote: > > trade war between china and usa is escalating > > an early debian distro has flavor for non-us users, because of us > export > > restriction? how does usa enforce the law on Internet? > > it's not easy for me to use mail and i may not respond timely > > The presence of the non-US archive section is a historical relic from a > period when the US considered certain forms of cryptography to be > "munitions" and so hosting implementations of said cryptographic > algorithms in the US such that users in foreign countries could download > them was considered a violation of several US laws. The solution was to > host those cryptographic implementations outside the US. > > The current trade war is more about tarrifs (and maybe protection of > intellectual property), thought since I've not been following the > details I am not certain. > > In any event, the two matters are really quite separate and unrelated. > > As to "How does [the] USA enforce the law on [the] Internet?" Well, it > could be argued that they can't and they don't. > > Regards, > > -Roberto > > -- > Roberto C. Sánchez > >
