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.

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