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A select committee has called for more regulation and greater safety on the Internet. But politicians should be careful what they wish for, says Bill Thompson
"The real danger is not that politicians ask for things that the current network architecture cannot support, but that the network could be changed to make those things possible."
If we really wanted every email to include a photograph of the person sending it then we could rewrite the standard and change the code, and if we really wanted to link email addresses to entries in the national ID database we could.
The real danger is not that politicians ask for things that the current network architecture cannot support, but that the network could be changed to make those things possible.
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