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Rick Boucher To Chair House Internet Committee
Misch writes "Representative Rick Boucher (D-VA) will be taking the chair of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. Rep. Boucher has been an advocate for consumers rights, is a co-founder of the Congressional Internet Caucus, and has participated in a Slashdot Interview. He was instrumental in defeating key escrow, back in the day."
When you click on the story it becomes blue.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
A piece of advice to him, before calling anyone wearing a black hat before the committee make sure to check the sub basements for bouncy balls.
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He will not support net neutrality, but rather will support federalizing and then heavily deregulating franchising laws so that cable, telephone and wireless companies don't have to really pay any taxes or face any regulatory burdens when they decide to set up shop in a new market. In addition, hopefully he will support the first half of Lessig's suggestion that the FCC be abolished, but will stop short of creating the "iEPA" (innovation Environmental Protection Agency) replacement. These laws and agencies only serve to enrich the well-connected at the expense of competition.
Let me be the first to say that I, for one, welcome our new sane, Slashdot-answering, fair-use-aware internet overlord.
Legislation related to the copyright into the committees of the judiciary and courts, the internet, and intellectual property.
Occasionally copies of bill go to the commerce and energy committee, but mostly its just a gesture rather than actual authority, as any approved bills usually get passed back to the afore mentioned committees for another pass.
If he's leaving either of the others, it's actually a reduction in the influence of reformists. Either way i'm at least glad he's still there.
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Boucher is great for this post, and I'm thrilled that he'll be there. I'm also thrilled that he'll be giving up leadership of the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment. Boucher is a coal guy from a coal region of southwestern Virginia. He was weak on energy and environmental standards relative to the Democratic caucus.
So, this is good for Net Neutrality and other Internet issues.
It's also good for climate change and other environmental issues.
P.S. Like Boucher? Click on my sig link and send him some bucks!
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But what if I wanna sell my meth in US customary units?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Very true. Markey wasn't that great an advocate as the former chair of this subcommittee, but it's not the coup we were all hoping for. Howard Berman did head over to chair Foreign Affairs after Tom Lantos died, but it's apparently not clear yet whether he's ever going to relinquish the Judiciary IP subcommittee chairmanship that the Content Cabal pay him to cling to.
He's honest, smart, knowledgeable. Yet despite those handicaps he's served in Congress for many years.
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And let yourself loose on mankind? Please stay in.
"He was instrumental in defeating key escrow, back in the day."
Another way to say that is that RIck is never going to give you up, never going to let you down.
Why is the banner red? Communists.
Isn't red also the colour of the GOP? :/
... of the Congressional Internet Circus?
It's that big tent full of tubes...
Legislation related to the copyright into the committees of the judiciary and courts, the internet, and intellectual property.
I read this sentence a number of times, and I tried really hard to parse it. First, it has no verb at all. I tried concatenating it to the title of your post, and it still has no verb.
How did this get +4 Interesting? "Occasionally copies of bill go"? Your first sentence does not parse. The second sentence says, "Occassionally bills go to the committee, but approved bills go back to the committee for another pass". Again, this is not a logical statement. You're also talking about commerce and energy committee, where this story is about the Internet committee.
Third paragraph is talking about him leaving, and him being still there. The article is about him gaining a chairmanship of a commitee.
So, first sentence makes no sense. Second sentence also makes no sense and is off topic. Third sentence makes no sense.
In conclusion, please posts on the slashdot.org webpage and onto the internet, the universe, and the grand unification.
Heh. Apparently even Congress gets Rickrolled. (Yeah, yeah, wrong Rick -- but still. Maybe he can sing?)
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His brother is Bobby Boucher -- who was a standout linebacker and special teams player at South Central Louisiana State University.
Please don't use "umm" or "err" or "erm".
I'm grateful to the politicians who kept that from going into law, but let's be realistic: key escrow never had a serious chance. If it were the law, everyone who needed/wanted security would just have broken the law. And the only time anyone would have been charged for breaking that law is when they were already being charged with breaking a bunch of other stuff too -- it would be one of those "let's add a bunch of extra counts to this" thing, sort of like a "robbery with a gun" charge.
Nobody knows if you're obeying a key escrow law or not, until they're already spying on you and find out, "Hey, that's didn't really decrypt the session key."
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
Over here, they created telco regulations at the turn of the century, at a time the incumbent providers were already very few and very entrenched.
It was horrible.
The regulations got used. When the entrenched telcos tried to stifle the growth of up-and-coming providers with underhanded tactics, they got punished -- I kid you not! The mind boggles. Those guys were only trying to keep making money!
So now we got up to 20Mbps (in the countryside, don't know about cities) with no cap, with such things as custom reverse DNS and IPv6 as free options, installation on Linux officially supported, TV-over-DSL with hundreds of channels, and, oh, free phone to half the planet, too, all for a fixed monthly rate of about $22. The horror! The former entrenched telcos weeped a lot as they lost the marketshare they were rightfully entitled to.
Some silly liberals are probably going to bring forth some silly theory about the point of regulation being to prevent attempts by private interests to stifle competition, but that's a silly notion, of course. And probably a little subversive.
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It's a good thing regulations protected the people who got screwed by Enr... oh wait.
It's a good thing regulations protected the town that the movie Erin Brockovicth was based on.. oh, wait.
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Yep ...
The Nazis also used Red with black
So GOP == Communists, Nazis, Red China, the colour of hate (seeing red), aggression, spilled blood of the innocents, the list goes on
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I made some typos and left a couple words out of my sentences while i was distracted, Whoopdy-freakin-doo.
The third paragraph is SPECULATING about him leaving other committees he was seating last I checked, if you'll notice the "If" at the front of the sentence.
I'm not proud of the mistakes, but the message is still quite clear.
I'd be happy to have one of the /. editors or admins correct the typos, but attacking the idea expressed based on typing mistakes is beyond nitpicking.
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Boucher hasn't been 100% perfect, but I'm sure the Content Cabal wanted their fair-haired kept boy in there instead. For the record, Berman IS my congresscritter. And I didn't vote for him this time. Just as I didn't vote for him two years ago.
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Then I submit to you a corrected copy.
Legislation related to copyright generally goes into the committee of the judiciary and from there to the subcommittee on courts, the internet, and intellectual property.
Occasionally copies of bill go to the commerce and energy committee, but mostly its just a gesture rather than actual authority, as any bills which are approved by said committee usually get passed back to the judiciary anyway (or a copy is sent to the judiciary at the same time), just to show they're the top dogs.
If he's leaving either of his other committees (IIRC he was seated on the one on courts, the internet, and intellectual property), it's actually a reduction in the influence of reformists. Either way i'm at least glad he was re-elected.
I hope this clears up any problems.
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The meaning is clear. An entity, referred to here as Legislation, related to the copyright. A comma was then forgotten, obscuring the meaning somewhat, but it's easy enough to go on from there to conclude that Legislation also related into the committees, the internet, and intellectual property.
That's an awful lot of relating, but it's easy enough to understand.
I still don't trust him. He's a politician, and politicians are only truly concerned about themselves and how to obtain and maintain their power.