Announced chat control by the EU

[Robert J. Hansen]

> Not sure whether the US is a pleasantly inviting jurisdiction at the moment.

I'm going to dodge the non-GnuPG-related political aspects of that 
question. Let's keep this as on-topic as possible, okay?

The question isn't whether, in the *unusual and unlikely* event the EU 
becomes cryptographically hostile, the U.S. would be a pleasantly 
inviting jurisdiction. The question is whether it would be a sufficient 
jurisdiction to keep GnuPG alive and development moving forward while 
future plans could be figured out.

Or, put another way: if you're traveling in a luxury suite on a posh 
cruise liner, and it suddenly catches fire and you have to abandon ship, 
a fishing trawler that offers you hot meals, a place to sleep, and a 
lavatory for your three days travel back to port, suddenly looks pretty 
darn good.

Whether the U.S. is the bastion of freedoms that it once was is a 
complicated political question. We could get lost in that for months to 
no productive end. Whether the U.S. retains *enough* of its freedoms to 
be a suitable home to GnuPG while it figures out its new direction is a 
simple political question: yes, it is.

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