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US Gov't. Ending Its Hands-Off-the-Internet Stance
Taco Cowboy writes in with a report from The Register about a US policy shift away from keeping hands off the Internet. "According to Assistant Secretary Larry Strickling, Obama's top official at the Department of Commerce, the US government's policy of leaving the Internet alone is over. Instead, an 'Internet Policy 3.0' approach will see policy discussions between government agencies, foreign governments, and key Internet constituencies, with those discussions covering issues such as privacy, child protection, cybersecurity, copyright protection, and Internet governance." Here is the presentation in which Strickling enunciated these changes.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35592245/ns/politics/
How's that hope and change working out?
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
Too right. It's really weird to return to Slashdot and see the tone of the discussion...
People are so very quick to spot that career politicians have the morals of robber barons, and this shocks and offends everybody to the point where the cry goes up, 'Off with their heads! We will trust entirely in business, which must be honorable or expire in competitive battle!' ...when business IS robber barons, that have the morals of career politicians- and you don't really have any better chance of monitoring them and getting coherent information than you had with the politicians.
And without that coherent information, you are boned and cannot maintain the anti-hierarchical system you seek.
I see naive people.
Some of you guys need to take a sabbatical like I have, get out in the world, or at least get into some political blogs that aren't 'Red State'. The questions are sadly complicated, and none of the answers are really free from consequence- put it this way, when your answer looks really simple, you have an = somewhere that you meant ==, and though you think you understand what's going to happen, the compiler's going to happily follow your instructions and deliver results that will shock you.
Pay for voting by making lazy people pay a fine for not showing up. Then they can contribute in some way. The idiots and fanatics tend to cancel out - the parties try to split the vote and the "undecided" (who are not so bright either) decide the elections. This happens today and would continue to happen; however, it might be more difficult to fool that many "undecided" voters than it is today.
I voted for Obama because he clearly was the better one (unless you are ignorant or stupid.) My doubts are that McCain might have been better in that he would most likely have been HOOVER #2 and wreaked the nation ---> in the end, it might have been better to crash, burn and rebuild than having Obama plug the leaks in the dam with his fingers... Or calmly crash landing us into the Hudson river. He won't get credit unless he starts performing miracles (which won't happen this is reality not the Bible.)
Obama doesn't have the power; the broken system that the public helped create is bigger than Obama. He could be the smartest leader EVER but without help he won't gain much ground against the current system. Obama can't act like Bush and get anywhere near that amount of work done by the simple fact: the entrenched powers are only YOURS when you do their bidding. Bush was on the side of the winners, they even did a lot of his job for him so he took record long vacations. Obama is tacking against hurricane winds; he must go with the flow or not make any headway. He has already taken on the biggest most powerful groups in the USA in the 1st year. The pathetic healthcare bill is the most that can be done in the current system; doesn't matter what he wants and I think it was wise to distance himself hoping people would see the corruption at work and learn. Instead the pussy Americans are put off from fixing anything because politics is too dirty.
We have a bunch of wimpy suburbanites who can't deal with the reality of our situation which they helped cause. Its a stupid mob mentality-- help us! we screwed ourselves and need somebody to fix our mess and to shift blame towards! Don't EVER tell us we caused this problem! Especially don't EVER tell us we have to change our ways! Hence the need for a smack in the face - to wake up America. Hoover #2 is probably the only thing that will fix America; as long as Americans have disposable income/debt they will give up life, liberty, and the real pursuit of happiness.
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Of course nothing has changed, you still have the Republicans scaring the crap out of people to prevent the government from doing things which don't favor corporations or the upper class. Combine that with the millions of imbeciles that vote for fascism and there you go.
It's a really sweet gig being a Republican, you get elected on an anti-government platform you sabotage things going through your committees then when things fail you rail against the incompetence of government and how your opponent doesn't have enough American flags. Then when people finally figure you out, you just move out of your office and into some lobbying firm.
Yeah, I know I'll be modded to hell, but like it or not, that's how the Republican party works. Makes you wonder if they ever do anything that is in the interest of the people they're supposed to be representing.