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Obama v. McCain on tech issues
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ARS technica has a
great article covering the technical issues that Obama or McCain will eventually have to address when they receive the office in '09.
The article points out the differences of the tech advisers for each campaign, Chuck Fish (McCain campaign and form Time Warner exec) and Daniel Weitzer (Obama tech advisor and MIT computer scientist). One advised by corporate goons, the other by an institution that introduced Open Courseware and the MIT license.
Chuck Fish warns against regulating providers from discriminating bandwidth to customers who can pay the most money while Daniel Weitzer insists that "Openness is more important than bandwidth".
The article then discusses NSA surveillance and oversight issues. The most interesting paragraph is towards the end.
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In terms of the candidates' broader philosophies on tech issues, Weitzner primarily relied on Obama's lengthy white paper.
He stressed Obama's commitment to using technology as a means of
promoting greater openness in government, and touted his plan to name a
federal government–wide Chief Technology Officer to coordinate policy
across the alphabet soup of federal agencies. Playing to the civil
libertarian crowd, he also stressed Obama's anti-censorship approach to
child protection, centered on prosecution of child exploiters and
technological empowerment of parents." - ARS Technica
Like many of us on the net, I'm a big Ron Paul fan, but now that we're getting down to two, I like where Obama stands on net neutrality and technology in general. Maybe we can tackle dangerous software patents and copyright law next.
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