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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."

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  1. Hey... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I resemble that remark!

    1. Re:Hey... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      From the mouth of babes, as they say. Something tells me that fourteen year old tweeters such as yourself know infinitely more about how the web works than this Rogers character. Not as if he cares though, right?

      And editors... Fuck it, if you haven't improved after so many mistakes there's just no point in bothering to point them out any more.

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

    Should be leading here

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  3. 50 something by EzInKy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This 50 something year old say FU Mike, and facebook and google too. You are welcome to your big brother future, but leave the rest of us out of it.

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    1. Re:50 something by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      This 50 something year old say FU Mike, and facebook and google too. You are welcome to your big brother future, but leave the rest of us out of it.

      Usually, when a politician backs crap like this (and especially when they say really ignorant things like this guy did), a file all about them shows up at their office filled with data found via legal access.

      I just have to assume that there is some heavy lobbying pressure on this guy from corporate America - corp America is increasingly dependent on Big Data and they are against anything - anything at all - that will limit their precious data. Through in the whole "national security - stopping the next marathon bomber or the next school shooting" and you have a recipe for more intrusions on our privacy.

      It doesn't help that there are millions of US citizens voluntarily giving up their privacy via Facebook.

    2. Re:50 something by chihowa · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Statements like yours are why Hamilton was so against the Bill of Rights from the beginning. In no way is the purpose of the Constitution to enumerate the rights of the citizens. It's sad to see that he was right.

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    3. Re:50 something by chihowa · · Score: 5, Insightful

      From Federalist Papers #84:

      I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and in the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers which are not granted; and on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?

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    4. Re:50 something by c0lo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      No one is attacking your rights. Just your privacy. I know people don't like to hear it but their is no Constitutional right to privacy. What privacy you do have is by statute.

      Keep this in mind - in a democracy, anything that is not subject to a law to say otherwise:
      1. it is allowed for the citizens
      2. it is forbidden for the state/government.

      So spare me with the "Constitution doesn't grant you this right" or cease pretending US is a democracy.

      (I'll be counting the replies recycling the "by Constitution, US is a republic, not a democracy". I do hope I'll have none to count).

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  4. Who do you trust more? by davydagger · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who do you trust more, really?

    Teens in their basement, or slimebag politicians in washington?

    At least we know teenagers in their basements aren't taking money from special corporate intrests trying to fuck us all over.

  5. Rogers Whines Like a 14 Year Old by Colonel+Korn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Honestly, 14 year olds tend not to be remotely aware of the evils of bills like CISPA. In my experience it's the best and brightest segment of society that's united against this nonsense. On the other hand, 14 year olds are quite familiar with answering criticism with a false ad hominem attack.

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  6. Time for a Super PAC by tokencode · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you want congressmen to take your opinion seriously, you need to speak in the only language they understand... votes. Someone needs to start a crowd-funded super PAC that specifically targets politically vulnerable candidates who opposed privacy. Start running negative ads in their home districts and you may see a change, but last I checked no one in Washington gives a crap about what is posted on /.

  7. 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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