Biden on Tech Policy

by on August 25, 2008 · 16 comments

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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Cord Blomquist / Cord Blomquist spends most of his time pining for the singularity. To pass the time while waiting for this convergence, he serves as the New Media Manager at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Before landing this sweet gig, Cord hocked policy writing for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, toiled in the halls of Congress, and even worked in a crouton factory. In college, Cord spent his hours studying political philosophy and artificial intelligence, resulting in an unhealthy obsession with Lt. Commander Data. All of these activities will, of course, be viewed as laughable when he is ported from this crude meatspace into the nanobot cloud.

  • http://www.codemonkeyramblings.com Mike T

    “Spotty” is a very inappropriately nice way of putting it. Unless the man is an agent provocateur for libertarianism, he's the sort of VP that should make most libertarians shake their heads at Obama as a serious candidate.

  • http://www.cordblomquist.com cordblomquist

    I agree Mike, I was too nice. I should say “abysmal” or “horrible” in regards to Biden's record.

  • http://bennett.com/blog Richard Bennett

    Tech policy obviously isn't very important to Obama or he couldn't have chosen Biden to be his running mate. So it's as I suspected, the Obama campaign got Lessig and Danny Weitzner to write a tech policy they don't intend to implement.

    This should make the bidness interests more comfortable with Obama.

  • http://enigmafoundry.wordpress.com eee_eff

    * Biden was one of only four Senators invited to a champagne reception with Jack Valenti for his work on the DMCA
    OUCH
    * 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

  • Mike

    * Posting the anarchist cookbook online is now a felony thanks to Biden, resulting in a single conviction of a 20 year-old webmaster

    {{citation needed}}

  • Mike

    * Posting the anarchist cookbook online is now a felony thanks to Biden, resulting in a single conviction of a 20 year-old webmaster

    {{citation needed}}

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