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Obama Significantly Revises Technology Positions
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."
And this surprises anyone...why? Obama seems to find safety in vagueness, just like most politicians. Gives them more room to waffle later.
Change we can believe in!
In the US there is already such a very nice contract, it's called the United States Constitution and breaching it is grounds for impeachment.
It provides for awesome limitations on government, such as prohibiting the use of anything but gold and silver as money, thus preventing government from seizing people's wealth through inflation, protects citizens against unreasonable searches and seizues, makes confessions obtained under torture null and void, habeas corpus, prohibits direct taxation without apportionment and...
Oh shit. :-|
Send your spendthrift head of state this
Responding to hyperbole with pedantry. Then again, this is slashdot, home of the clueless gripper.
Blar.