I'll provide the URL to the act so people can read it before they comment:
http://www.stoppoliceware.org/cbdtpa_bill_text.php
"Fred Baker" <fred(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com> 08/19/02 11:49AM >>>
At 10:48 AM 8/19/2002 -0400, Brian Bisaillon wrote:
Legislations such as the "Consumer Broadband and Digital Television
Promotion Act" are deliberate attempts by the U.S. government to impose
patterns or systems that limit one's mind (one's ability to learn about
and use information). This is clearly a limit on one's freedom and it's
morally wrong.
So then commercial advertising is wrong as well? It surely has the same end
in mind.