Republican Platform To Include Internet Freedom Plank

First time accepted submitter jay.madison writes "The new Republican Party platform includes language which promises action to promote freedom on the Internet. The move is being driven by Rand Paul's libertarian wing of the party. The text, which is still in draft form, says Republicans will work to guarantee that 'individuals retain the right to control the use of their data by third parties,' and that 'personal data receives full constitutional protection from government overreach.' Republicans would resist moves toward international governance of the Internet, and seek to 'remove regulatory barriers that protect outdated technologies and business plans from innovation and competition, while preventing legacy regulation from interfering with new technologies such as mobile delivery of voice and video data as they become crucial components of the Internet ecosystem.' The platform is due to be adopted at the Republican National Convention next week."

Comments

Grasping for straws

[Anonymous Coward]

Come on, I'm not USian but their whole platform is based around "folk morality" of the worst kind. They're outright talibanesque on some fronts. People talk about Sweden like we're the Saudi Arabia of Pegg^M^M^M^MFeminism but the US Republicans seem like the Saudi Arabia's uncultured cousin sometimes. This is just a feint.

Re:Not so fast

[lightknight]

Are you implying that the Democrats, in any way, shape, or form, are any different from the Republicans? I see an immense division over trivial issues. It's like having a world war over 'what color barns should be painted, pink or orange?'

I have to give a round of applause *golf clap* to whoever orchestrated this little design here; I'd want to shake his / her / their hand, buy them a drink, and possibly have my photo taken with them, because it's a f*cking class act. Of all the things in this Universe two parties of a small country, on a tiny planet, orbiting an almost non-existent star could argue about, it's this. That's some top of the line social engineering; you fight over trivial battles that mean nothing, and the rest of the country continues on auto-pilot. Let's face it people, the Earth is the B-Ark.

I'm going back to drinking. I hate being sober during election years, it's too f*cking depressing.

Re:Election promises....

[anagama]

What should actually be noted by Obama apologists, is that his plan to "close" Guantanamo was not a plan to stop the practices of Guantanamo, but to move those practices to a Federal prison in Thompson IL. Many in congress, including liberals Russ Feingold and Bernie Sanders, voted against Obama's plan not because they're neocon authoritarians, but because it made Gitmo worse by importing its unconstitutional practices to the US at great expense.

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/23/the_obama_gitmo_myth/

So yeah, Congress interfered with Obama's plan to spend lots of money importing Gitmo to the states. This really doesn't mean however, that Congress interfered with his liberal motives, as is so often implied by Obamabots. Kind of like how they give him credit for ending the War in Iraq, when what actually happened is that despite intensive lobbying of the Iraqi government, he failed to extend the expiration of SOFA beyond the Dec 2011 deadline GWB established, and as a result, his choice was to leave soldiers in Iraq subject to local prosecution for crimes, or pull them out. Obamabots give him credit for ending the war when he only deserves credit for failing to extend the war.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/26/obama-iraq_n_1032507.html