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?"

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Ron Paul for the Intertubes!

[Brandybuck]

Ron Paul will be best for technology, simply because he does not believe that it is any of government's business trying to manage it. The internet has shown the power of unfettered human creativity that happens when humans aren't micromanaged by government. It is a real life experiment demonstrating Hayek's spontaneous order.

The role of government is to protect and defend the lives, liberties and properties of the citizens. Powers beyond this only lead to authoritarianism of one brand or another. Candidate A may claim he's benevolent enough to manage all of our technology decisions, but even if he means well, what happens four or eight years down the road when Candidate B gets into office who isn't quite so benevolent? We need to keep government limited because government is inherently dangerous.

We geeks and engineers tend to think in terms of central administration and control. But the world does not work that way. It is extremely dynamic and subjective. You cannot bug fix it like you can software. Don't treat human beings like malleable code, they are not. Don't give government the role of national sysadmin! That would only lead to authoritarian BOFHism.

We need a candidate who would keep government out of technology and the internet, a candidate who won't try to micromanage our lives. That candidate is Ron Paul.