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Congress' Tech Agenda

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the moving-forward dept.

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."

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  1. Are they getting a clue??? by TopShelf · · Score: 4, Interesting
    1) They blocked the big-brother information gathering system that the Pentagon wanted to put in place (run by a convict who lied to Congress), and

    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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  2. ZDNet seems to have got the clues.... by jkrise · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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:

    1. Internet Tax: A lame troll by David.
    http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/st ory/0,10 738,2910920,00.html

    2. Cell phone rights:
    http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/s tory/0,10 738,2910207,00.html

    3. DMCA, Lexmark and printer refills:
    http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/ story/0,10 738,2910015,00.html

    4. Hollywood, DVDs, DMCA Fair-use rights:
    http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/s tory/0,10 738,2909517,00.html

    5. Copying music, Boucher-Dooliitle:
    http://www.zdnet.com/anchordes k/stories/story/0,10 738,2908975,00.html

    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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  3. attitude? by tanveer1979 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    "There will be numerous bills this year that will take a run at the DMCA that will raise concerns for us," Cresanti said."

    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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  4. Re:What do you do when... by lambadomy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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?