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The Internet Association, Whose Members Include Amazon, Facebook and Google, Writes Open Letter To Donald Trump (cnet.com)
The Internet Association -- a group of 40 top internet companies including Airbnb, Amazon, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Netflix, Twitter, Uber and Yahoo -- issued an open letter on Monday that congratulates Donald Trump on his victory and offers a long list of policy positions they hope he'll consider during his time as president. From a report on CNET:That list includes:
Upholding Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act so internet companies can't get sued easily for things their users say or do online.
Upholding Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act so internet companies can't get easily sued if they quickly remove copyrighted content that users upload (such as infringing photos and YouTube videos).
Reforming the 30-year-old Electronic Communications Privacy Act -- "Internet users must have the same protections for their inbox as they do for their mailbox," states the association. Supporting strong encryption (Trump called for a boycott of Apple when it refused to comply with an FBI order to unlock an iPhone linked to terror.)
Reforming Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which lets the NSA collect online communications without a warrant.
Providing similar copyright protections for companies that operate outside the US.
Reforming the US Patent Office to deter patent trolls, a term for companies that sue other companies based on patents without actually producing new products.Here's the full list.
Upholding Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act so internet companies can't get sued easily for things their users say or do online.
Upholding Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act so internet companies can't get easily sued if they quickly remove copyrighted content that users upload (such as infringing photos and YouTube videos).
Reforming the 30-year-old Electronic Communications Privacy Act -- "Internet users must have the same protections for their inbox as they do for their mailbox," states the association. Supporting strong encryption (Trump called for a boycott of Apple when it refused to comply with an FBI order to unlock an iPhone linked to terror.)
Reforming Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which lets the NSA collect online communications without a warrant.
Providing similar copyright protections for companies that operate outside the US.
Reforming the US Patent Office to deter patent trolls, a term for companies that sue other companies based on patents without actually producing new products.Here's the full list.
The dupe has a proud and storied history on Slashdot, but this is the very first time I have ever seen the dupe immediately follow the original on the front page!
Can't you come up for air?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
They're protecting themselves and their businesses, to ensure they can keep exploiting you as easily as always. Snooping hurts them as much as it does us.
Continue to ensure Slashdot upholds the highest standards of news for nerds by reposting the same story over and over again.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Maybe all the libs will quit crying after he goes down this checklist.
They seem to be asking for more foreign labour allowances (in the form of STEM green cards) to further suppress salaries of homegrown labour.
On demand and sharing economy companies are Controlling workers like Employee W2 but only paying them like 1099's and they don't cover workers comp or in some cases letting them bear the risk when things go bad that if they where W2 that the employer covers.
two must be better!
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
fuck trump
replace H1B with Green Card is a good idea as it removes the H1B job lock.
Who knows? Maybe they're gunning for a hat trick.
No. SCRAP the DMCA altogether. DMCA has been abused countless times to stifle free speech with no repercussions. At the very least, there needs to be a strong deterrent to repeat offenders who abuse the power of DMCA takedown notices.
"Modernize the U.S. Copyright Office" so we can have more software patents or natural human genes?
Data driven innovation? How about trying to learn how to encrypt your own brands data before seeking even less consumer privacy with lots of different data?
Warrant for content stored across technologies? That US wide domestic collect it all policy seems to be getting its access for decades without comment.
Strong encryption? What use is strong encryption if the US brands hand over the keys to the US gov? Or the US sets weak standards. Or firms store data in plain text due to a lack of expert staff?
Surveillance Reform? The US gov enjoyed the help and support of US brands over decades. Why the interest in the users privacy now?
Re "defamation, “dangerous” speech, or political dissent". If you sell out to a monarchy, theocracy, kingdom and accept their cash, the freedom of speech from the USA is gone. Thats not a US issue. Don't sell out and your brand is fully protected in the USA.
Re "adequate intellectual property regimes" stop selling out to regional media brands that keep your content away from consumers globally for weeks, months or longer.
Don't let weak per nation deals remove the ability to stream your own content globally. Find better legal teams.
Re "Cross-Border Data Flows" Why should other nations accept junk US encryption and give their nations private data to the US? Learn to encrypt to a better standard and work with locals.
Re "The increasing number of governments disrupting" Stop selling out to a monarchy, theocracy, kingdom and then other govs won't get control.
STEM education vs yet more open immigration? If US universities cant produce graduates and other nations can, that won't be fixed with ever more open immigration or creating ever more work permits.
Bring back real exams and tests, pass the only the very best and the US too can again have "high-skilled graduates" just like every other nation.
Cry ins, exams been optional do not help with the "high-skilled graduates" vision.
Re "Increase Diversity" just make the exams and tests really hard. The US will then have a lot of really good, smart people working hard with lots of really great local jobs been created in the private sector.
Skills that the US can sell to the world. Average skills do not sell well globally or help any community.
Start by teaching encryption to secure all the great new "privacy, security, standardisation" and Internet of Things.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
No, H1B is designed to fill a specific role, and the # of visas for this roles is appropriate... the problem with H1B is that it is abused, because there is very little 'criminal liability' for the company (and more importantly _the person_ ) who files an improper H1B visa application...
Ohh and lets not forget how no one 'really' investigates H1B visa applcations... b/c something like 2/3 of them go to only ~12 companies or something insane like that.... when the 'idea' of H1B visas is for "world experts" to come to the US to do work... you know Brain Surgeons (other than Ben Carson), PhDs giving lectures, etc... NOT tech workers...