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Congress' Tech Agenda
A reader writes: "Fox News is running a story on Congress' Tech Agenda. We have all been reading about plenty of legislation as each bill is introduced or considered, but it's nice to see a major news outlet picking up on the larger trend."
2) The DMCRA
Is it just possible that they're getting a clue? As a coworker says, "dawn breaks on marble head..."
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ALL the points mentioned in the Fox News report have been covered by David Coursey of ZDNet in his unique style. It's an open secret that David is the Chief Microsoft Apologist at Anchordesk. What remains to be seen is whether the agenda is that of the govt. or Microsoft's. Links from the last few weeks at ZDNet:
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1. Internet Tax: A lame troll by David.
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/s
2. Cell phone rights:
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/
3. DMCA, Lexmark and printer refills:
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories
4. Hollywood, DVDs, DMCA Fair-use rights:
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/
5. Copying music, Boucher-Dooliitle:
http://www.zdnet.com/anchorde
Judging by the Talkback generated by David Coursey, it seems he's got the 'average-Joe' readers excited with his unique sensationalist style of journalism.
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Giving rights to their customers is a concern to the corporations now. I wonder what happened to the great so called ideology "customer is the king" that these companies pretend to practice.
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You're 100% right, Hollings is a bad example, and probably tech in general is a bad example of what I'm talking about. But the fact remains that I'll rarely if ever find any legislators that agree with me on a large majority of the issues, and there is something wrong with that. I know that over time what is important to political parties changes quite a bit, so maybe my question is, how do we influence that change? If a third or fourth or seventeenth political party is not going to work it's way into relevance, what has to happen to change either or both of the parties we have into something closer to what I want?
Read Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distorts the News by Bernard Goldberg and you will see that Fox is actually more credible than ABC, CBS, or NBC. PBS's biases are too well known to need documenting.
This article was written by Fox News, a part of News Corporation. News Corp is one of the companies who "encouraged" Master Hollings to write his SSSCA / CBDTPA bills.
Fox News is run by Roger Ailes for Christ's sake...a two bit Republican strategist from the Reagan-Bush era.
Fox News. Heh. Did anybody else see their little 80-second world news thing a few days ago? The last launch of the Ariane II, which has been launching for "116 years"? And I saw the same segment twice, about 6 hours apart. They really need somebody working there who actually watches the channel. I'm not gonna even talk about their "tens of thousands arround the world" bullshit with the protests...
Anyway, it's not the big donors they like, it's the clear cause-and-effect and reliability of their support. Real people care about abortion and terrorism and shit, companies only care about one thing at a time. You pass DMCA, we give you fat sack 'o cash money. Dealing with the complex opinions of actual voters is too much work, and your average polititian really isn't smart enough to deal with the ammount of imput necessary to actually represent people. You either need interest groups or qualified polititians, and unfortunately, all the qualified polititians are too busy running interest groups to run.
This is why I send the EFF a few bucks now and then. We need somebody to point out that Sony isn't actually representing us, which, honestly, is what they usually manage to convince congress of. Since their mailboxes and phone lines are spammed by interest groups, your representative's perception of what you want comes from spokesmen for companies and the polls those spokesmen give them.
I'll bet at least half the people who voted for the DMCA honestly thought it would help the people get better movies, and keep the poor 'ol studios from having to raise DVD prices, if they thought anything about it at all, that is. We just managed to point out the massive flaws there, and congress is responding.
There's no massive shift here, so don't celebrate. Congress is still clueless, the next godawful law will just disguise itself as something we haven't specifically adressed yet.
Also, life is a endless road paved with pain and sorrow, and there's two goddam feet of snow outside my door. Fuck you global warming! Fuck you jet stream! Fuck you Gulf currents! Fucking nature.
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<shudder> That's upsetting, but unfortunately probably right. ``Centrist'' in U.S. political terms is really, really far right according to most of the rest of the world.
That Fox News can be considered ``mainstream''... Scary.
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