A Skype call in Ethiopia will now get you 15 years in prison
You can say what you like about the Constitution, but my tin foil hat says that the reason you don’t have laws like this in North America is because we have the technology and can afford to snoop on Skype, email, and so forth at scale. Ethiopia simply doesn’t have the money and/or know-how to monitor VoIP and Email at scale. There’s no salient difference in policy between them and us.<p>If we rewrite the law to say, “Thou shalt not use a communication mechanism we can’t monitor,” the behaviours of Ethiopia and US/Canada aren’t all that different.