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Obama Significantly Revises Technology Positions

Posted by timothy on from the platitude-adjustment dept.

method9455 writes "Barack Obama has edited his official website on many issues, including a huge revision on the technology page. Strangely it seems net neutrality is no longer as important as it was a few months ago, and the swaths of detail have been removed and replaced with fairly vague rhetoric. Many technologists were alarmed with the choice of Joe Biden before, and now it appears their fears might have been well founded." Update: 09/22 18:07 GMT by T : Julian Sanchez of Ars Technica passed on a statement from an Obama campaign representative who points out that the changes in wording highlighted by Versionista aren't the whole story, and that more Obama tech-plan details are now available in a PDF, saying "there is absolutely no substantive change to our policy - folks who want more information can click to get our full plan."

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  1. Re:Vote with a bullet. by 4D6963 · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're all rich white men

    You mean, except the one black guy, right?

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  2. America vs Freedom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Every American election always reminds me of the phrase from Alien vs Predator.

    "Whoever wins, we all lose." or something like that.

  3. Re:Vote with a bullet. by 4D6963 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ha, but you're forgetting one thing. Well two actually, he can dance and he can jump! If that doesn't make him black, that makes him pretty fly for a rich white guy.

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  4. Re:Vote with a bullet. by Shakrai · · Score: 4, Funny

    OMG! Green leafy vegetables! How did it come to this? How can someone who eats rabbit food be this close to the White House?

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  5. Re:Vote with a bullet. by Shakrai · · Score: 5, Funny

    He became a 'millionaire' because he wrote a couple memoirs? Huh? So writing a couple memoirs is a 'get rich quick' scheme that we should all engage in, it isn't a way for the politically connected to siphon in some green?? Well, then, I guess we should all write our memoirs.

    So now we hate authors too?

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  6. Re:Vote with a bullet. by kperson · · Score: 5, Funny

    I keep forgetting -- does having a wife and kids make you rich, or white?

  7. Re:Vote with a bullet. by c6gunner · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is called meta-color.

    My colour-sampler puts him at #A67A61

  8. Re:Vote with a bullet. by Killjoy_NL · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the US, it usually makes you a man ;)

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