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US Internet Firms Ask Trump To Support Encryption, Ease Regulations (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: U.S. internet companies including Facebook Inc and Amazon Inc have sent President-elect Donald Trump a detailed list of their policy priorities, which includes promoting strong encryption, immigration reform and maintaining liability protections from content that users share on their platforms. The letter sent on Monday by the Internet Association, a trade group whose 40 members also include Alphabet's Google, Uber and Twitter, represents an early effort to repair the relationship between the technology sector and Trump, who was almost universally disliked and at times denounced in Silicon Valley during the presidential campaign. Some of the policy goals stated in the letter may align with Trump's priorities, including easing regulation on the sharing economy, lowering taxes on profits made from intellectual property and applying pressure on Europe to not erect too many barriers that restrict U.S. internet companies from growing in that market. Other goals are likely to clash with Trump, who offered numerous broadsides against the tech sector during his campaign. They include supporting strong encryption in products against efforts by law enforcement agencies to mandate access to data for criminal investigations, upholding recent reforms to U.S. government surveillance programs that ended the bulk collection of call data by the National Security Agency, and maintaining net neutrality rules that require internet service providers to treat web traffic equally. The association seeks immigration reform to support more high-skilled workers staying in the United States. While urging support for trade agreements, the letter does not mention the Trans Pacific Partnership, which Trump has repeatedly assailed with claims it was poorly negotiated and would take jobs away from U.S. workers. The technology sector supported the deal, but members of Congress have conceded since the election it is not going to be enacted.
Too bad these companies and so many other people dismissed him as a joke, mocked him and his supporters relentlessly for the past year. The arrogance of these people is astounding.
I hope by "Immigration reform" they aren't hoping for an expanded H1B program. I think he made it perfectly clear that was not going to fly anymore. You know...by having the former Disney employees present on his campaign trail.
Dear Mr Trump,
You may remember us. We're the people who were suggesting that California leave the USA because you won. We also took some blame for fake news that we claim let you win. Oh, and all of us donated heavily to your main political rival, allowing her to outspend you by a pretty large margin in the Presidential campaign.
Now that you remember who we are, we'd like to ask you a small favour. Please will you do something that helps maintain the balance of power in our favour, rather than that of the instruments of the surveillance state that will be under your control?
Thanks,
A bunch of people that hate you
I am TheRaven on Soylent News
We fucking hate you. We loath your existence. We used our influence to actively campaign against you by manipulating the information the public sees and hears.
Now, here's our list of demands.
Now go away or we shall taunt you a second time-a.
Arrogant, self-entitled pieces of shit.
We hates you! We hates you!
Can we get the same shit Clinton promised for our support?
Maybe actually writing to the guy with reasonable requests is a better way to go about it instead of rioting, looting and posting endless inane memes on Facebook. Just a thought.
Reference The Caine Mutiny for ideas on the matter.
lowering taxes on profits made from intellectual property
The government bears a large burden for protecting your IP. Even IP that I do not agree with. If you are going to reap the benefits of that, then pay the fucking price.
Silence is a state of mime.
How about instead Trump immediately and indefinitely halts the H-1B visa program - no new H-1B visas issued, extended or renewed until further notice.
This was something he said he would do, it is popular among his supporters and as far as I am aware it is within the purview of the executive to decide who can immigrate and on what visas.
"The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, Pub.L. 82-414, enacted a provision still found in Title 8 of the U.S. Code at Section 1182(f). The provision gives the president authority to suspend the entry of any class of foreign nationals when the president deems their entry to be detrimental to the interests of the United States."
Tech ought to love that.
The guy is a negotiator. He'll throw them a bone, but get big concessions in response to this.
Endless hate is not really a characteristic of Trump. Pragmatism is.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Some quotes from his Twitter:
"I have officially cast my vote for @HillaryClinton... Let's make history tonight! #ImWithHer #electionday"
"Clinton wiped the floor with Trump tonight. Say hello to your next president, America! #debatenight"
"Trump is a saggy sack of shit. If any one of you is even remotely considering voting for him this November, please unfollow me."
And so on. And now he clearly uses his position on Slashdot to push articles against Trump twice every day or even more often. Can't whipslash do anything about it? Guy's starting to get boring with his propaganda.
Even if they curtail H1B, US firms will still outsource. You people who supported Trump have your head up your ass and have poor job skills.
Why should the MAJORITY of America kiss Trump's ass?
The stories on this website suck balls all the time now.
Do you have any interesting tech stories?
Ease immigration of highly skilled workers. Ease (coax?) emigration of low-skilled workers from the "old industries" all over the Rust Belt, especially white trash. Those are the ones who elected Trump.
Kill two birds with one stone!
He'll listen to what they want. And if they open some factories and offices in places like Detroit and Des Moines, he may even give them some of what they want.
Nah - we've been here all along.
How about a standard encryption for email, to comply with HIPAA, so the stupid FAX MACHINES will DIE OFF. Been working on them, printers, photocopiers, computers for over 35 years and with VoIP sometimes it's almost impossible to get fax machines to work with VoIP. Some healthcare agencies I have to deal with WILL NOT authorize Fax to email or anything other than a straight fax machine or fax MFP. 9600-14.4k bps is about the max you can get. People are use to attaching a 30-40 page file to email, complain how long it takes to fax a 30 page fax....PLEASE, standardize email encryption, make it where these stupid antiques called fax machines can go the way of the telegram.
All of the self-styled super educated people who mock Trump voters as rubes because they've heard of this guy named David Ricardo and his intellectual descendants who made superficially good arguments about Free Trade.
I've had some fun asking such people "cool story bro, now tell me the implications of the bank wire transfer, jet plane and mega cargo ship on Comparative Advantage."
"Uh duh duh, herp derp, muh degree."
Most free trade supporters, today, are literally as stupid as that person in the horror movie, who sees the monster's victim and declares "there is no monster" despite every fact staring them in the face.
that emails me when BeauHD stops posting to slashdot?
U.S. internet companies including Facebook Inc and Amazon Inc have sent President-elect Donald Trump a detailed list of their policy priorities
Trump represents the will of the People, not of greedy globalist cabals like you.
which includes promoting strong encryption, immigration reform and maintaining liability protections from content that users share on their platforms.
That you would ask him for anything is rich given your treatment of him. If I were you, I might have apologized, congratulated, and asked for an audience. That would be more traditional behavior given the crushing defeat he dealt you and your failed ideology.
The letter sent on Monday by the Internet Association, a trade group whose 40 members also include Alphabet's Google, Uber and Twitter, represents an early effort to repair the relationship between the technology sector and Trump, who was almost universally disliked and at times denounced in Silicon Valley during the presidential campaign.
You do not repair this damage by presenting a list of demands. You repair it by acknowledging that you have been utterly defeated and that you are prepared to respect the will of the People and of the leader they have elected.
Some of the policy goals stated in the letter may align with Trump's priorities, including easing regulation on the sharing economy, lowering taxes on profits made from intellectual property and applying pressure on Europe to not erect too many barriers that restrict U.S. internet companies from growing in that market.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Other goals are likely to clash with Trump, who offered numerous broadsides against the tech sector during his campaign. They include supporting strong encryption in products against efforts by law enforcement agencies to mandate access to data for criminal investigations, upholding recent reforms to U.S. government surveillance programs that ended the bulk collection of call data by the National Security Agency, and maintaining net neutrality rules that require internet service providers to treat web traffic equally.
Your world is burning down and a new and better world will be erected in its place.
The association seeks immigration reform to support more high-skilled workers staying in the United States.
Kiss their brown asses goodbye. What companies across America have been doing by bringing in these Indians is treason and the managers and executives responsible should be hanged.
While urging support for trade agreements, the letter does not mention the Trans Pacific Partnership, which Trump has repeatedly assailed with claims it was poorly negotiated and would take jobs away from U.S. workers. The technology sector supported the deal, but members of Congress have conceded since the election it is not going to be enacted.
The world is against you and history is written by the victors. You will not be remembered well.
thanks
metafekr.com
+1 fact. Have you also noticed how the related links at the bottom are always manipulated to present either an anti-Trump or pro-SJW agenda?
Today's related links:
-Brexit
-Another dead guy
-Capitalism = bad
-Butthurt over losing the election
-Anti-Trump article
Are these the same 'Internet firms' who's leaders were talking of California secession a few days ago after the election?
He agrees a deal then reneges on the deal. He's done that time and time again with all of his suppliers. Anyone who voted for this con man thinks he won't do that to them? Why do they think they're special to him?
Look at the way he's trying to get out of the Paris CO2 agreements by reneging on it.
His promises are worthless.
Trump-Book, Trumper, Trapple ... that is all they need to do to strock his ego.
Trump-EMC
Trumprosoft
Trumpsco
Troracle
And just to be clear, nobody voted FOR Mr. Trump. We all voted AGAINST Ms. Clinton. Personally, I just want Obama-Care repealed. Can't take the $500/month extra bill. As a small business owner, this is killing me and my family.
Who's going to read it to him?
You are welcome on my lawn.
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We loathe you with every fiber of our being. Here's a list of what we want.
The list of their requests has been strongly encrypted with their own software, but they forgot to send the key to Trump....
This is a list of terrible things with a few positive points slipped in. Bringing back any variation of the TPP terms would be terrible and the "reform" they have in mind for "immigration" wouldn't be reform at all, it would be further deepening the problem. Reform would be eliminating the h1b program and offshoring not expanding it.
This one is so easy. Folks, every time you hear a Republican say they're going to repeal Romneycare, you know they're lying. It doesn't matter if you -- shit, did I say Romneycare? Sorry. I meant, every time you hear a Republican say they're going to repeal Obamacare, you know they're lying. They're not mistaken. They're not thinking it's going to be a hard political battle, which they may or may not win. I mean they're lying about their intentions.
I don't care if you think Obamacare is a good idea or not. That is totally irrelevant to what I'm talking about. I'm saying that when a Republican (post-2010) says they're against it, that Republican is lying. If you're against Obamacare and you vote for a Republican based on his promise they he'll repeal Obamacare, you just got duped, because you're actually voting to keep Obamacare. Republicans love Obamacare.
Got that? Let me say it again.
REPUBLICANS LOVE OBAMACARE. Even weirdo Republicans who aren't real Republicans, like Trump, intend to keep it. Paul Ryan is going to try to keep it too.
For those of you who don't know why, I'll explain: Obamacare is the last bastion to prevent socialized medicine from happening. It's going to be either Obamacare or NHS (or else telling voters that you're taking away their health insurance), so Republicans are going to desperately grasp onto it.
I have pretty good luck with "most" VoIP systems, as long as their ATA's have the T.38 protocols by pretty much dumbing down the fax to just a plain ole G3, disabling any short protocols, setting the compression to MH/MMH and a few other settings, but once in a while, you'll get the one or two numbers it just will not work with. The biggest complaint is "the lines of words look like a barcode" from dropped packet/noise.
Actually, wait a minute. It makes sense, but it has jack shit to do with the electoral college nonsense.
The day before the election, there was one thing that every one of us knew: whoever won, would not have the support anywhere close to half of the country. Had Clinton won, nobody would be kissing her ass either, you know.
One of the very best reasons to vote for Trump, was to try to prevent Clinton from becoming president. Just as the best reason to vote for Clinton was to prevent Trump from becoming president. I realize people in those camps might have had other reasons for voting the way they did, but they were a minority. (Don't blame me; I voted for Johnson. I tried to help both efforts and also get a great president too. Yeah, call me unrealistically greedy.)
As it happens, one of the efforts failed and the other succeeded. But let's not pretend that plenty of people who voted for Trump weren't gagging as they did it. You damn well know it's true, just as there was plenty of Clinton-voter vomit found in the voting booths also.
Everyone needs to keep the same attitude that they had when they thought Clinton was going to win: president-elect, you're our bitch. The president is still going to be our bitch, and nobody should forget that. Getting the election results didn't change that.
Issue orders. Everyone should be issuing orders. The Clinton/Trump president-elect, who we now just call Trump, is going to have to do a lot to start getting credit with anyone.
And anyone who thinks this is arrogant, either isn't American or needs to take a deep breath. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, Americans, but do this: take a deep breath and then say, "The government is my bitch. The government will always be The People's Bitch. That is what America is." Just say it. It's not as flowery as what Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1776 but it's shorter and easier to memorize. Go on, do it. Let it be your new Pledge of Allegiance if it isn't already.
"Believe me!" -- Donald Trump
80% of the hate I see on Twitter is from the SJW idiots... They all act like a brainless mob.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
No deals can be made with TRUMPENSTEIN. He never honors his deals. He will betray. The TRUMPASTOPHY is upon us. Fight back in every way that you can. Ask nothing of the monster and humiliate him in every way at every opportunity. Organize a TRUMPENSTEIN comic book competition among the tech and nerd communities. Make TRUMPENSTEIN movies. Impeach the creep before he takes office. Come on people. Bloom ! Be all that you can be ! Be creative and join the good fight. Maybe even TRUMPENSTEIN porn movie showing the rape of the 13 year old girl by the orange duck. And label that orange pumpkin TRUMPENSTEIN with a blond wig on it ! Make note that the media is hiding the huge protests breaking out all over America.
Media pleading is exactly opposite to the desires and best interests of the white working yeomanry who elected him. Trump needs to takes a few scalps from entitled fatKat media-sluts and spread the blood for all to see. Trashing 99% of H1-bs is an excellent start. Ruthlessly high tariffs on imported manufactures goods is a 2nd. Rigorous Gub'mnt regulation ( & discipline *hehehe* ) of Internet companies as common-carriers finishes a nice triple. Stringent enforcement of GLASS/SIEGEL forces retail banks to look after customers first ... they are really a public utility since deposits are insured by the Feds ... that would really fuck-the-Fatkat speculators in the *zzwhole.
And the middle gets what it deserves for letting the lunatic fringe take and maintain control over these United States of America.
At least I can relax with sexy, nude pictures of the First Lady. Couldn't find any nekkid pics of the outgoing First Lady (who was massively sexier, BTW).