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Inside Kerry and Bush's Technology Agendas

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the informed-voters dept.

wbren writes "PC Magazine has posted an interview on its website shedding some light on the two major candidates' policies regarding privacy, The Patriot Act, outsourcing, Internet sales taxes, broadband taxes and other important tech-related issues. PC Magazine calls it an interview, but John Kerry was the only candidate to actually respond directly to the questions asked. Bush's camp referred PC Magazine to George Bush's website to find the answers. The result: detailed and informative responses from Kerry, and many missing responses from the Bush campaign due to lack of information provided by Bush's website."

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  1. MOD PARENT UP by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Absolutely! From what I can see, none of the promises I voted for Bush on in 2000 (and yes, despite the name I did vote for Bush last time around) were accomplished. Abortion, Economics, Taxes, all of it was worse under Bush than under Clinton.

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  2. Re:Should we take the Kerry responses seriously? by 0x0d0a · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Remember when Bush was getting voted in against Gore? And everyone said "yeah, Bush is inexperienced and maybe won't be so great, but he'll have great advisors and he's going to listen to them"?

    How does that same logic not apply to Kerry? You think he won't have technology advisors? That he personally makes all policy? Just because Kerry's following a technology platform that he personally didn't develop doesn't mean that one should vote against him.

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  3. Republicans vs. Free Speech by fmaxwell · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Democrats are also notoriously pro-censorship (its for the children).

    Wait a minute! It's under Bush adminstration that the FCC just levied record fines for Janet Jackson flashing a nipple on the television. It's been the Bush administration's FCC that has gone after Howard Stern for the sake of "the children." It was the Reagan Administration's Meese Commission that pressured 7/11 convenience stores to stop carrying adult magazines. The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which required filtering software in public libraries was introduced by Rep. Bob Franks, a Republican from New Jersey.

    Democrats are much less likely to promote censorship than Republicans are.