Biden = RIAA?

[snoopy369]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10024163-38.html

By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward the bottom of CNET's Technology Voters' Guide, and whose anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

(More in article)

Almost a month old, but new to me ... Not terribly surprising, Biden struck me as a "power to the government" type (not so different from most of what is bad about the current administration...) but interesting to see the specifics laid out like this.

[SlowwHand]

See? Yet another strike. The side is out.

[Patroklos]

Thats that, Oerdin has to vote McCain now

[EPW]

Biden

Obama

Taft riding a water buffalo

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Yeah, he's pretty bad on a number of levels, which is why I didn't like his selection. Looks like we're headed in this direction:

[asleepathewheel]

Awesome pic!

Poor Oerdin :shakeshead:

[-Jrabbit]

Awesome!

So say we all.

[Vesayen]

So, will Biden not get the critical "music/software pirate" vote?

[Aeson]

I would vote for Cthulhu... unless he ran D or R ... but don't agree about the "lesser evil" part of that message.

No good choices

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Patroklos
Thats that, Oerdin has to vote McCain now

[RGBVideo]

Re: Biden = RIAA?

Originally posted by snoopy369

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10024163-38.html

By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward the bottom of CNET's Technology Voters' Guide, and whose anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

(More in article)

Almost a month old, but new to me ... Not terribly surprising, Biden struck me as a "power to the government" type (not so different from most of what is bad about the current administration...) but interesting to see the specifics laid out like this.

Biden is the most corrupt Senator in US Senate after Stevens, so this is not really surprising. In the pocket of big corporations.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
See? Yet another strike. The side is out.

I am shocked, shocked that any Democrat would vote for a bill sponsored by Republicans! O the awefulness of it all!! I must vote Republican in order to reject the Republican viewpoint!!!

[snoopy369]

1. Republicans are not a single entity, any more than dems are.

2. Biden is on the side of republicans that I despise (the Patriot Act Republicans).

For example (from the article which I somehow gather you didn't read):

Biden introduced another bill called the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995. It previewed the 2001 Patriot Act by allowing secret evidence to be used in prosecutions, expanding the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and wiretap laws, creating a new federal crime of "terrorism" that could be invoked based on political beliefs, permitting the U.S. military to be used in civilian law enforcement, and allowing permanent detection of non-U.S. citizens without judicial review....

[I]t's true that Biden's proposal probably helped to lay the groundwork for the Bush administration's Patriot Act.

Point being: if you dislike the Republicans because of their anti-privacy, playing loose with the constitution attitudes, Biden is not going to be any better - and McCain may well be.

[Aeson]

All 4 voted for the 2006 extension of the Patriot Act. (Except Palin... but is there really any question what she would have voted if given the chance?)

McCain was one of the few to vote against the original Patriot Act. That McCain is gone though. Just another R took his place.

[snoopy369]

We'll see. I hope that he has not really changed, and just changed to get votes (though I'm not happy with that either, but I have to think it's the lesser of two evils in that sense). Either way, Biden is definitely pro-patriot act type of laws, clearly, and I have no idea about Obama except that I'd worry Biden = Cheney in the sense that Obama might just be the front man for Biden and his wing of the Democrats...