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Rep. Mike Rogers Dismisses CISPA Opponents "14 Year Old Tweeter On the Internet"
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."
I actually watched that speech. It seemed like the President was pissed off about something or other that failed to pass. I was glad to see that my congressman actually listened to me and the others in his district instead of President Obama. I don't know if the President is aware of it or not but these congressmen have to run for office every once in a while and if they piss off the people in their district they don't get to keep that nice cushy job. I saw where one of his fellow Democrats in Congress was giving one of the President's staff hell the other day in a meeting about how badly the Obamacare thing is going. He expressed to her his displeasure and anger about their ineptitude in getting the program going. Upon further reading I discovered that this guy was a key player in helping get Obamacare passed and it seems his constituents remember this and are just now becoming aware of all those things that Nancy (we have to pass it to know what's in it) Pelosi was talking about. Now that they find they bought a bottle of snake oil they seem to be on track to rid themselves of this guy and he's feeling a little panicky. If only more people understood the repercussions of these attempts to give Corporations this kind of power over our data then Congress would fear to tread here as well.