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Net Neutrality Supporters Hammered In Elections
Pickens writes "Gigi Sohn writes in the Huffington Post that one of the results of the mid-term elections was the defeat of Representative Rick Boucher, the current Chair of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, widely recognized as one of the most tech-savvy and intelligent members of Congress, and long an advocate for consumers on a wide variety of communications and intellectual property issues. Boucher has been the best friend of fair use on Capitol Hill writes Sohn. In 2002, 2003 and 2007, Boucher introduced legislation to allow consumers to break digital locks for lawful purposes, a fair use exception to the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and while the odds against that legislation passing were always great, Boucher understood the symbolic importance of standing up for consumers' rights to use technology lawfully. 'As important, he served as a moderating force both on the House Energy & Commerce and Judiciary Committees against those many members of Congress willing to give large media companies virtually everything on their copyright wish lists.'"
Wait. You actually believe that voters voted on substantive issues?
if by substantive you mean, repealing the health care bill, reinstating tax brakes from former presidents, and making sure the gays can't get a civil union (so they can make health care decisions for their partners, and be protected by the 5th amendment on the whole couples thing), then yes.
personally I'd like all the money from GM, and the banks, and the rest of the handouts back, and I'd like to build, by employing local citizens and residents, a national high speed rail system. In times of economic hardship there are fewer better ways to spend money than infrastructure. See the "Works Progress Administration", and the "Civil Works Administration".
All of the above was encrypted with a Quad ROT-13 method. Unauthorized decryption is in violation of the DMCA.
Way to write one long ad hominem attack in response to something that wasn't even an ad hominem.
It's not an ad hominem to question a person or a website's credibility. Calling someone a "racist" and "tribalist", is, however.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.