I said, in the USA.
Now as for your judgement of the amount of over-reaction, well let's compare your grounds versus Brad's to speak on the issue.
Unlike you Brad lives in the US. He has been heavily involved in legal matters for a long time. And he ran that article by lawyers before publishing.
You, on the other hand, lack all of those qualifications. OTOH you are armed with equal doses of ignorance, a sense of how things ideally would be, and the arrogance to believe that you don't need to know more to form a final opinion.
I think that I'll take Brad's position more seriously, thanks.
Ben
PS I suspect that I know more about the US legal system than you do as well. And reading that article, Brad's concerns struck me as quite plausible. I don't know enough to know whether he is right, but you would need to know more than I do to show that he is wrong.