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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?"
No, it's because 10% of the country says he has no chance, 10% says he's a batshit crazy racist loon, and 70% say, "Who's Ron Paul?" If the 70% find out, most will join the "batshit crazy loon" group, which is why the "he has no chance" group is exactly right. It's long past time for people to get over the infatuation with Paul.
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You cannot wash away blood with blood
Seems to need some hypothetical translation:
* Ensure an open Internet.
This means that universities, ISPs and companies have to censor the access to the Internet so that it can be ensured that we still can have an open Internet.
* Create a transparent and connected democracy.
The government should have total access to all your Internet activities.
* Encourage a modern communications infrastructure.
The companies who bribe me and my friends should get money from the government.
* Employ technology to solve our nation's most pressing problems.
Spend government funding on DRM and Internet filtering.
* Improve America's competitiveness.
Strike down hard on filesharing and make it easier to get patents so that an even bigger part of USA can focus on being in court.
So... I'm not impressed as that can mean anything.