Biden on Tech Policy
Declan McCullagh has a great write-up on presumptive Democratic VP nominee Joe Biden over at CNET. Some highlights:
- Biden was one of only four Senators invited to a champagne reception with Jack Valenti for his work on the DMCA
- Surveillance legislation by Biden inspired Phil Zimmermann to write PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), an encryption program
- Biden wrote an early precursor to the USA PATRIOT Act
- Posting the anarchist cookbook online is now a felony thanks to Biden, resulting in a single conviction of a 20 year-old webmaster
- Biden proposed spending $1 billion so cops could police P2P networks
Check out the post to read more about Biden’s spotty record on tech policy.
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This should make the bidness interests more comfortable with Obama.
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* Surveillance legislation by Biden inspired Phil Zimmermann to write PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), an encryption program
* Biden wrote an early precursor to the USA PATRIOT Act
* Posting the anarchist cookbook online is now a felony thanks to Biden, resulting in a single conviction of a 20 year-old webmaster
Recall though that it's easy to get a copy on P2P networks. I'll probably download a copy and post on wikileaks, or on my blog.
* Biden proposed spending $1 billion so cops could police P2P networks
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