[anamax]

> But my position on internet privacy is a little different. I feel that you do need a minimal technical understanding of the issue.

> Some technical understanding of this issue is prerequisite to understanding how the negative consequences outweigh the positive.

What technical understanding do you think that someone needs in this case?

I'll help - do they need to understand more than "if your mail is hosted by Yahoo, Yahoo stores it" and "if your mail is in outlook, it's on your machine or that of your employer"? Those those two pieces of information establish where your mail is stored both before and after reading.

Note that the distinction that the DoJ was trying to make, that read mail stored outside your control isn't private, is not a technical issue, but a legal one.

> And I said "tea-bagging protesters" as a quick, lazy, way to refer to a group of people.

If it had been a similar reference about a different group of people, you have been driven out as a racist.