To the best of my knowledge, no government has bothered with the set-up that would be necessary to 'inspect' electronic goods transfers yet. Aside, as you note, from the Government With Too Much Time On Its Hands, and even they only block. We both know it would be possible to do, but it would be a hella pain to set it up and extremely heavy on the man-hours unless they went with some kind of text-scanning algorithm which would be... well probably just as many man hours to look at all the false positives. And I'm not sure it could be done invisibly (that is without noticeable delay of delivery), so in some countries you'd also have huge public outcry about reading a person's mail since that's how most of the first world public would probably think of it, foreign purchase or not.
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Date: 10 Jun 2009 04:37 pm (UTC)