Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology?
Petey_Alchemist writes "With Super Tuesday coming up and the political field somewhat winnowed down, the process of picking the nominees for the next American President is well underway. At the same time, the Internet is bustling through a period of legal questions like Copyright infringement, net neutrality, wireless spectrum, content filtering, broadband deployment. All of these are just a few of the host of issues that the next President will be pressured to weigh in on during his or her tenure. Who do you think would be the best (or worst) candidate on Internet issues?"
Popular Mechanics' Geek The Vote '08 has a nice rundown of each candidate's tech policies.
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I was impressed by Obama's technology issues page:
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/technology/
The summary points are:
* Ensure an open Internet.
* Create a transparent and connected democracy.
* Encourage a modern communications infrastructure.
* Employ technology to solve our nation's most pressing problems.
* Improve America's competitiveness.
The list is pretty much "policy speak" but the detailed initiatives indicate a good grasp of the issues and a reasonable stance on the direction we need to move.
If Obama is good enough for xkcd then he's good enough for me.
I imagine Huckabee is the worst on technology issues unless of course they were mentioned in the bible.
And Vint Cerf agrees with him.
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