<story><title>Ask Sen. Wyden to read your name during his Protect IP filibuster</title><url>http://stopcensorship.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zheng</author><text>This is an honest question that I realize will seem very tin-foil hatty, but I can&apos;t seem to brush it off.&lt;p&gt;Does anyone ever worry that doing something like this (supplying your name, email, etc.) will come back to bite you later?  Say, in 15 years if the American government by some twist outlaws decent.  Does anyone worry that you might be persecuted?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>georgemcbay</author><text>If things ever get to the point where the US Government is actively rounding up people for having their name on a list because they oppose &quot;Protect IP&quot;, I like to think I will be too busy actively revolting to worry about my name being on this list.&lt;p&gt;And I&apos;m a tree-hugging, liberal hippie.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask Sen. Wyden to read your name during his Protect IP filibuster</title><url>http://stopcensorship.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zheng</author><text>This is an honest question that I realize will seem very tin-foil hatty, but I can&apos;t seem to brush it off.&lt;p&gt;Does anyone ever worry that doing something like this (supplying your name, email, etc.) will come back to bite you later?  Say, in 15 years if the American government by some twist outlaws decent.  Does anyone worry that you might be persecuted?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rosser</author><text>That would be an example of an &lt;i&gt;ex post facto&lt;/i&gt; law — punishing behavior that occurred before such behavior was made criminal — the creation of which is explicitly forbidden to the Congress in Article 1, Section 9 (and to the States in Section 10) of the US Constitution.&lt;p&gt;That&apos;s not to say your name wouldn&apos;t end up on a list of people who should be watched for further seditious behavior or something, but I&apos;m pretty sure that kind of thing already happens, and has been for a very long time, anyway.</text></comment>