<story><title>US Government: You&apos;re Scaring Web Businesses Into Moving Out Of The US</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120216/17154217785/congrats-us-government-youre-scaring-web-businesses-into-moving-out-us.shtml</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aytekin</author><text>When I saw the title I first thought they saw this forum thread about how a Canadian business has switched away from using JotForm and how they are considering to stop purchasing from all US based online companies:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jotform.com/answers/77171-Recent-Domain-Suspension&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.jotform.com/answers/77171-Recent-Domain-Suspensio...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;By the way, Techdirt&apos;s Mike is such a great guy. He has been very supportive and he even introduced us to some lawyers.</text></comment>
<story><title>US Government: You&apos;re Scaring Web Businesses Into Moving Out Of The US</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120216/17154217785/congrats-us-government-youre-scaring-web-businesses-into-moving-out-us.shtml</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>praxeologist</author><text>What does &quot;Get corporate membership with EFF&quot; mean?&lt;p&gt;Anyhow, I totally agree that the gov&apos;t is out of control. It isn&apos;t just with this copyright stuff either.&lt;p&gt;I sell electronic cigarettes and have an innovation to improve adoption with smokers. My product will undoubtedly be proven many times safer than smoking and more effective in helping people quit, but we face seizures and the threat of regulations which will shutter small businesses like mine.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m doing #4, &quot;Migrate yourself to a non-US controlled country.&quot; as soon as I can afford to.</text></comment>