One of the frustrating things about working in tech policy is that our issues get precious little airtime in political campaigns. Politicians rarely get asked tough questions about the issues that matter most to the technology industry. So I was excited to come across this video of Ron Paul discussing his views on Internet and video game censorship, Internet taxation, and network neutrality regulation:
Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I found it jarring when they guy kept referring to Rep. Paul as “Ron.” If he had the president on would he have called him “George?”
Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certaincompanies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.
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