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Tech Leaders Push Back Against Obama's Efforts To Divert Discussion From NSA
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "The Guardian reports that while President Obama tried to portray a meeting with tech leaders as a wide-ranging discussion of broader priorities including ways of improving the functionality of the troubled health insurance website Healthcare.gov, senior executives from Apple, Yahoo, Google, Comcast, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and Netflix said they were determined to keep the discussion focused on the NSA. 'We are there to talk about the NSA,' said one executive who was briefed on the company's agenda before the event. After meeting Obama and vice president Joe Biden for two-and-a-half hours, the companies issued a one-line statement. 'We appreciated the opportunity to share directly with the president our principles on government surveillance that we released last week and we urge him to move aggressively on reform.' Many of the senior tech leaders had already made public their demand for sweeping surveillance reforms in an open letter that specifically called for a ban on the kind of bulk data collection that a federal judge ruled on Monday was probably unlawful. Obama seemed sympathetic to the idea of allowing more disclosure of government surveillance requests by technology companies, according to a tech industry official who was briefed on the meeting. Marissa Mayer brought up concerns about the potentially negative impact that could be caused if countries, such as Brazil, move forward with legislation that would require service providers to ensure that data belonging to a citizen of a certain country remain in the country it originates, the official said. That would require technology companies to build data centers in each country — a costly problem for American Internet companies. The decision by the tech giants to press their case in such a public and unified way poses a problem for the White House. The industry is an increasingly influential voice in Washington, a vital part of the US economy and many of its most successful leaders are prominent Democratic political donors."
Racist. And you smell.
You know, it's really quite sad how not only you enjoy licking the boots of authority, but you apparently derive special pleasure from humiliating yourself in such a manner in public, with as many reproachful eyes on you as possible. I honestly can't think of any other reason why you keep posting things like these here on Slashdot of all places.
Hmmmm, lets parse that out.
Personal attack:
it's really quite sad how not only you enjoy licking the boots of authority
Personal attack:
but you apparently derive special pleasure from humiliating yourself in such a manner in public
Personal attack:
in such a manner in public with as many reproachful eyes on you as possible
Personal attack:
I honestly can't think of any other reason why you keep posting things like these here on Slashdot of all places.
It's funny, I went through your entire post and it all seems to be all personal attacks. You don't make any arguments or provide any useful facts. Is that what you intended to do? It doesn't seem a very useful thing to be doing. I thought this web site was supposed to be visited by geeks and people of above average intelligence that might have something useful to say? You don't really seem to have risen to the challenge there.
Oh, and don't worry, I don't respect your opinion enough for your views to be of any concern to me, especially when you make posts like that.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell