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Rep. Mike Rogers Dismisses CISPA Opponents "14 Year Old Tweeter On the Internet"

Posted by samzenpus on from the foot-in-mouth dept.

gale the simple writes "Mike Rodgers made a minor splash Tuesday when he decided to liken CISPA opponents to 14-year-old basement dwellers. The EFF, naturally, picked up on this generalization and asked everyone to let the representative know that it is not just the 14-year-olds that care about privacy."

5 of 222 comments (clear)

  1. EFF link broken by MaxToTheMax · · Score: 4, Informative

    It has an extra lowercase "l" at the end, remove that and it works.

  2. Link to EFF needs fixing by eksith · · Score: 5, Informative

    Should be leading here

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  3. Re:Don't play their game! by Scared+Rabbit · · Score: 3, Informative

    *WOOSH*

  4. Re:Last link is broken by bondsbw · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think the summary needs to clarify: this is Michigan representative Mike Rogers, not Alabama representative Mike Rogers.

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  5. How Republicans Think by Required+Snark · · Score: 3, Informative
    Rodgers is far from the only Republican who thinks that citizens should shut up and do as they are told.

    http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/04/17/bonus_quote_of_the_day.html

    "I am the senator. You are the citizen. You need to be quiet."

    -- North Carolina State Senator Tommy Tucker (R), quoted by the Raleigh News and Observer, to Goldsboro News-Argus publisher Hal Tanner who was opposing legislation to change public notice requirements for local government.

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