Obviously this is an issue centered around liability. Congress has lack of sense of itself when it comes to matters that they(congress and other related government offices) have little or no control over. From those in the field, the ILU was a minor problem, just like most viruses that are written for microsoft. Just don't enable it. Along those same lines, if everyone who saw the attachment followed the same simple thought pattern, ILU would not have been a problem. We all know this so why didn't the people in this panel? This is beginning to become an 'us vs. them' issue very quickly and it should not be that way. The result of this is a lot of angry and scared people wanting to punish in retaliation and make it so those who do this again receive stiff punishment. Perhaps someone should broaden the view for them. In their thinking, you punish the virus writer for allowing the virus to be written. Yeah, so to protect ourselves, obviously, we have to make viruses illegal. Well, since viruses are still around we are going to now have to punish and prosecute those who activate them. Since viruses are now still be created and being activated by criminals, we now need to punish the anti-virus makers for not forseeing that these criminals would be doing such things, and not preventing it in the first place. Also, since all of this started from the idea of 'a free internet without government supervision' we need to implement laws that will punish anyone from using the internet without our supervision, and while we are at it, perhaps we should persecute those who upheld that idea to begin with. After all, it's the governments world. If anyone tries to do something they don't fully comprehend there will be a panel. After that panel, government will be fully qualified and educated to make a decision. (after all, what is the panel for, right?)

I know this sounds like an anti-big government post. Sorry for that tone. It is in my opinion that narrow insight such has been demonstrated in this panel has led us to some very terrible decisions in the past. Lets educate where it will impact us most, those who make the laws, so we are free to learn from our own mistakes.

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