Austin sez,
"Last year the Librarian of Congress made it illegal to unlock your cell
phone
by
changing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). This can lead to
exorbitant costs to consumers traveling internationally and, perhaps more
importantly, it is restricting our freedom in unfair ways. It also has odd
implications like forcing the blind to file for exemption every three years
in order to use third-party screen readers.
After 100,000 people signed a petition on this
issue,
the White House responded in support of making these laws more fair. Sina
Khanifar, who created that petition with support from
Y-Combinator,
Reddit, Mozilla Foundation,
the Electronic
Frontier Foundation and more has launched a website to
educate the public on the issue and give them the tools to notify their
representatives directly with their thoughts on the issue."
